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? Read the first blog in a three-part series by Nirica that brings you books with different imaginations of the future.Â
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
Hello fellow book lover, Like most other things, we’ve turned the scorching summer heat into an excuse to read more. Find some shade or a cool corner, get ourselves a chilled glass of coconut water, and pick up a book that transports us away from the sapping heat. For us, the highlight of March was hosting an online event with Katie Kitamura. Her book Intimacies, which we sent as part of the Champaca Book Subscription, was an instant favourite for our team. We loved the precise, sometimes haunting nature of Kitamura’s work. In her conversation with our team member Nirica,...
Dispatches from Champaca: February 2023
A blooming Jacaranda tree + other updates from our store!