The Shelf Life: Champaca Bookstore Blog
The Champaca Reading Challenge: 2024
Welcome to the Champaca Reading Challenge! This year, we’ve put together 24 prompts for 2024. They’re designed to help us read widely, more diversely, and more adventurously. Let’s discover something new together! How this works: Just pick a book to read that fits each prompt! You don’t need to fulfil prompts in the order they are listed, and you don’t even have to finish the challenge. Think of this as a way to discover books beyond our horizons and comfort zones – discovering new voices and new worlds in the books we read! If you’re curious, you can even revisit...
Dispatches from Champaca | August 2023
Hello fellow book lover, How have you been? July was a hectic month for us, with back-to-back events and book signings. But we spent some time reflecting on the first half of the year: the books we read, the events we curated, and the conversations we’ve had with each other, and our readers. Our bestseller list for the first six months of 2023 was surprising, in the best way possible. It was wonderful to see the books that we had hosted discussions around, sent in our subscription boxes and loved reading ourselves make it to the list. From Aanchal Mallhotra’s...
On Circularities, Genre, and Alien Intelligences: An Interview with author Martin MacInnes
Dispatches from Champaca: June 2023
Recap: Champaca Book Subscription Year Three — Loneliness & Connection
We have arrived at the end of another year of our Champaca Book Subscription! With three years under our belt, we are thrilled to have been able to explore topics in depth, through books from far and wide, and to be able to share them with you. In our first year, we read translations from across India and the world, and in our second year, we reimagined what travel could mean to us outside of our usual understanding. In year three, from July 2022 to June 2023, we read around the themes of Loneliness and Connection. These are twin themes,...