The Shelf Life: Champaca Bookstore Blog
April Recommendations — Dalit History Month
Since 2013, April has been celebrated as Dalit History Month. Modeled on Black History Month, it is a month-long annual observance that commemorates and celebrates the neglected histories, lives and works of Dalit, Bahujan and Adivasi people. Here at Champaca, we’ve put together a list of recommendations for Dalit History Month — books that moved us, and books we think are essential for you to read too.
Books for Now — “The Origins of Totalitarianism,” by Hannah Arendt
The idea of Books for Now is to engage closely with classics which we feel speak to the contemporary. Our first discussion in the series began with a discussion on Hannah Arendt’s Origins of Totalitarianism.
Read this guest post by Arvind Narrain (with inputs from Kavya Murthy).
Single by Choice: a reflection on an evening at our bookstore
In this guest post by Chinmay Manoj, read his recap of our event on the book Single By Choice, published by Women Unlimited and with the Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI). Purchase the book here.
Women In Translation Month
Kavya Murthy writes about 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. A study soon revealed that only 26 % of books in translation were written by women.
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.