The Shelf Life: Champaca Bookstore Blog
Imaginations of the Future: Part One — Ecological Futures
What kind of technology will become widespread by 2100? What kind of social order will exist? What will the natural world look like?
Dispatches from Champaca: April 2023
Updates from our store, and what we've loved reading!
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.
Dispatches from Champaca: March 2023
Our March was full of delight: the highlight? An event with one of our favourite writers, Katie Kitamura.
Dispatches from Champaca: February 2023
A blooming Jacaranda tree + other updates from our store!
Dispatches From Champaca: January 2023
The first month of the year is always promising — it holds immense possibility and hope. Here are some updates from our store!
A Store Full Of Stories
“Working here would be my dream job,” is something we often overhear at Champaca.
The Champaca Reading Challenge: 2023!
Welcome to 2023’s Champaca Reading Challenge! We’ve put together a list of prompts designed to help us, and you, read widely and more diversely. Let’s discover something new together!
Dispatches From Champaca: December 2022
In the last week of this year, we’ve been reflecting on our reading habits and how our bookstore has changed and grown this year.
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.
Life In A City
In City Of Incident Zaidi offers a solid portrait of the city’s people — who are constantly troubled by their gender and class, and rendered powerless in more ways than one.
Dispatches From Champaca: November 2022
A roundup of the our in-store events in November, and updates from our library!