The Shelf Life: Champaca Bookstore Blog
September Recommendations — Cats!
This month, we’ve put together recommendations for cat-lovers, across poetry, graphic novels, science, and fiction.
August Recommendations — Feminism
We’ve put together a collection of feminist writing that explore the intersection of feminism with race, caste, and class. In this list are memoirs, ethnography, biography and poetry.
July Recommendations — Race & Immigration
This month, we’ve compiled recommendations that speak to the experience of racism and the insider-outsider paradigm, that talk of immigration and race in many of its forms.
June Recommendations — Pride Month
This year, Pride Month coincides with the phenomenal wave of protests in the US and the Black Lives Matter movement. In India, we celebrate in a different context.
Meet the Champaca Staff
What better time than our birthday month to introduce you to the Champaca staff — read about them, and books that they have picked!
May Recommendations — Reading for an Indian Summer
Our list for summer reading tries to reflect this complexity and variation in the very experience of summer. Some books are for you to relax with, some for you to...
April Recommendations — Dalit History Month
Since 2013, April has been celebrated as Dalit History Month. We’ve put together a list of recommendations — books we think are essential for you to read too.
What we're reading — with Paper Planes
Cross-posted from Paper Planes Magazine.
The team at Champaca shares a list of five must-read titles from their discerningly put together bookshelves.