Book Launch: The Only City with Jeet Thayil, Dharini Bhaskar and Anindita Ghose | 20 December, 7PM onwards | Champaca, Indiranagar

We are delighted to host the launch of The Only City: Bombay in Eighteen Stories at Champaca Bookstore, Indiranagar. Edited by writer and journalist Anindita Ghose, this new anthology collects eighteen short stories that capture Bombay through many lives and vantage points.

Join us for an evening of readings and conversation with Jeet Thayil, Dharini Bhaskar and Anindita Ghose as they talk about writing the city, its memories and its myths. The event will be followed by a book signing, and you can pick up your copy of The Only City at the store.

Here are the details for the event:

Date: Saturday, 20 December
Time: 7 PM onwards
Venue: Champaca Bookstore, Indiranagar

Seats are limited, so do RSVP to save your spot!

About the Book:

Bombay is financial capital, home to film studios, mill lands, sea fronts and crowded trains, and is always in motion. The Only City brings together eighteen new short stories that follow many of its inhabitants, from runaway teenagers and immigrant nurses to writers, artists and film workers, each carrying their own fragment of the city. Through these voices, the book reflects a Bombay that can be tender, harsh, strange and deeply familiar all at once.

About the Editor:

Anindita Ghose is a writer, journalist and communications consultant based in Bombay, and the author of the novel The Illuminated. She was previously editor of the Saturday magazine Mint Lounge, has worked in strategic communications for a global social impact consultancy, and has studied journalism and linguistics at Columbia University and the University of Mumbai. She conceived, commissioned and edited The Only City, which also includes a short story by her.

About the Speakers:

Dharini Bhaskar is the author of These, Our Bodies, Possessed by Light, shortlisted for the JCB Prize for Literature and the Literature Live! Award, and Like Being Alive Twice. She is associate publisher, literary, at HarperCollins India. A St Xavier’s College alumnus, she left Bombay in her twenties but keeps returning to the city, where her parents live and where her son and many of her animals were born.

Jeet Thayil is a poet, novelist, librettist and musician. His novel Narcopolis was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the DSC Prize, and his collection These Errors are Correct received the Sahitya Akademi Award. His latest poetry collection I’ll Have it Here has won the Sarojini Naidu Award and the Kalinga Literary Award, and his new novel is The Elsewhereans. Jeet Thayil is a Bombayite who now lives elsewhere.