Meet the Booksellers
Our Staff at Vasanth Nagar
Radhika Timbadia, ProprietrixRadhika is the proprietrix of Champaca. She spends much of her time figuring out how to run an independent bookstore, while also reading and spending time with her dog, cat and plants.
Sindhu M, Bookstore Administrator
Sindhu manages the day-to-day functioning of the Bangalore store. She loves chocolate, watching movies, and spending time with her friends.
Hajira Fathima, Bookseller
Hajira manages inventory and billing at the Bangalore store. Besides eating ice cream, she loves spending her time knitting and applying mehendi.
Protima Tiwary, Communications and Events Lead
Protima is a full-time story collector and occasional writer. An advocate of wellness and intentional living, she is a Communications Professional and Brand Consultant also known as Dumbbells and Drama in the online world.
Our Advisory Team
Nirica Srinivasan, Curator
Nirica curates for Champaca and is a writer, editor, and illustrator. She likes to read short stories, speculative fiction, and books with unreliable narrators. At any point in time, she is reading at least six books.
Kavya writes, edits and reads to make a living and for pleasure. Like Moomintroll, she "only want(s) to live in peace and plant potatoes and dream".
Thejaswi Shivanand, Curator & Children’s Library Educator
When Thejaswi began reading in childhood, the Indian tectonic plate was farther away from the Eurasian plate by 66 cm. He likes to track the consequences of this plate movement during annual hikes in the Himalayas while continuing to read history, geology, natural history, music, picture books and much fiction while in Bangalore.