The Shelf Life: Champaca Bookstore Blog
India's Partition: A Reading List
While Partition continues to shape the politics of the sub-continent, rarely do we engage with its legacy with nuance and empathy.
Staff Recommendations: Books That Made Us Laugh
We love books that make us put them down (albeit for a brief moment) and laugh out loud. The Champaca staff recommends their favourite funny reads.
Staff Recommendations: Our Favourite First Lines
This week, on our third birthday, our team sat down to reflect on our favourite book openings. Read on to find out what each team member picked and why!
From Page To Screen: Recommendations
A collection of our favourite books that were adapted into TV shows or films.
The Champaca Reading Challenge: 2022
We’ve put together a list of prompts — some fun, some unusual — designed to expand our reading this year. Let’s read together to discover new worlds, and read diverse!
Team Champaca’s recommendations: The books we loved in 2021 📚
We decided to look back on 2021 through what we’ve read and loved, whether new releases or old ones, books long on our TBR, or ones we accidentally discovered on...
Recommendations for Women in Translation Month
August was declared Women in Translation Month by Meytal Radzinski, a scholar who took up the task of asking why there were so few women-identified authors published in translation.
‘Mohanaswamy’ to ‘Queer Intentions’: 8 Book Recommendations for Pride Month
For Pride Month, the team at Champaca Bookstore, Bengaluru, has put together a list of book recommendations for you to read.
Team Champaca’s recommendations, on our second birthday
On our second birthday, our team looks back at the last two unpredictable, whirlwind years in the best way we know how: through the books we discovered along the way.
January Recommendations: Looking Back, Looking Forward
At the cusp of 2020, we found ourselves taking stock of the year that has gone by, and making hopeful plans — and reading goals — for the new one.
October Recommendations — Horror, Crime & Mystery
This October, but we were inspired to put together some spooky recommendations for you.
Exploding Mangoes & Hiring Milkshakes: Recommended Reads for Designers & Makers by Jay Dutta
This month, we're featuring recommendations by Jay Dutta, the Founder/Curator of DesignUp. Here, he lists recommendations for designers — but really, they're recommendations for everyone!