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SUMMARY:Book Launch | ‘A Compendium of Supernatural Entities Found in the Government Girls Higher Secondary School’ by Kuzhali Manickavel at Champaca Bookstore
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the book launch of Kuzhali Manickavel's debut novel A Compendium of Supernatural Entities Found in the Government Girls Higher Secondary School\, which draws from her high school years in small-town Tamil Nadu.\nHer unique writing style includes elements of surrealism\, horror\, and unhinged humour\; but much of her short fiction is also very grounded in a sense of place. In this talk\, celebrated children's author Shalini Srinivasan will dialogue with Kuzhali about childhood visions\, coming-of-age stories\, and the monsters that haunt our dreams.\nThis will be followed by an interactive Q&amp\;A with the audience.\nAbout the book:\nIn the oppressive heat of a small Tamil Nadu town\, bizarre happenings are common. And the local government secondary school is teeming with supernatural entities.\nFor Thamarai\, an outsider considered strange by her peers\, life is dreary and frustrating. She endures nosy neighbours and incomprehensible tuition classes. She despises the way her lecherous English teacher harasses the other girls in her grade. But when Thamarai finds a mysterious notebook full of descriptions of the school's paranormal phenomena\, she wonders if it may hold the key to escape...\nMeet the author:\nKuzhali Manickavel was born in Winnipeg\, Manitoba\, and currently lives in Bangalore. She is the author of three collections of short fiction and several zines. This is her debut novel.\nAbout the moderator:\nShalini Srinivasan writes comics\, picture books\, and speculative fiction for children and adults. Her books include Vanamala and the Cephalopod\, Shoecat Thoocat and most recently\, the young adult fantasy\, A Forest Calls. She teaches at Azim Premji University\, and spends a lot of time holding forth at captive students.\n
LOCATION:7/1 Edward Road\, Off Queens Road\,\, Bengaluru\, Karnataka\, 560051\, in
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SUMMARY:Paid Event Test at Champaca Bookstore
LOCATION:7/1 Edward Road\, Off Queens Road\,\, Bengaluru\, Karnataka\, 560051\, in
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SUMMARY:Lost & Found: A Book Club at Champaca at Champaca Bookstore\, Indiranagar
DESCRIPTION:Lost &amp\; Found is an in-person book club at Champaca Bookstore\, Indiranagar. It will be held once a month in October and November and will follow a single theme across two books: the idea of how literature tells the story of language\, belief\, and people caught mid-transition—both in English\, mediated by a translator.\nThis series is a direct response to something we’ve been hearing often at Champaca\, that readers want to spend more time with a book and to talk about it with others. Lost &amp\; Found offers a simple structure to do exactly that: read\, meet\, and discuss!\nHow the sessions work\nTwo in-person sessions\, once in October and once in November\n\nEach session focuses on one book from the reading list\n\nConversations are guided by open-ended prompts\n\nSpace for both quiet reflection and group discussion\n\nA smaller group for closer\, more comfortable conversations\n\nBetween sessions\, participants will stay connected through an email or WhatsApp group\, with reading prompts and gentle reminders.Here are the details:\nFormat: In-person book clubTwo sessions\, once in October and once in November\nVenue: Champaca Bookstore\, Indiranagar\nDuration: 90 minutes per session\nFee for the membership of full three-part series: INR 1999Includes a Champaca book voucher worth INR 999\, which can be used to pick up both the book club titles from our shelves\, along with a Champaca notebook!\nRegister HereReading list:\nOctober: The Gods are Leaving by D.B. Mokashi\, translated from Marathi by Shanta Gokhale\nNovember: Spontaneous Acts by Yoko Tawada\, translated from German by Susan Bernofsky\nBonus: Herbarium by Sonia Rafeek\, translated from Malayalam by Ministhy S.\nWho is this for?\n\n\n Regular readers looking for structured discussion\n\n\n\n Readers returning to books after a break\n\n\n\n Anyone who wants a small\, welcoming reading group\n\n\n\n Open to adults and young adults (above 16 years)\n\n\n\n Someone interested in bookstores and their peculiarities \n\n\n\n Seats are limited\, so please register to join!\n\n\n\n
LOCATION:594 A\, 9th Main Road\,  Hoysala Nagar\, Indiranagar\,\, Bengaluru\, Karnataka\, 560039\, in
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SUMMARY:Book Discussion | ‘A Moving Line’: Evolving Identities in Comics and Graphic Narratives at Champaca Bookstore
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the book discussion of A Moving Line\, a celebration of India’s rich history of visual storytelling. Comic creator and visual artists Rahil Mohsin and Mia Jose will be in conversation with designer Kriti Monga to reflect on how storytelling in graphic narratives have evolved over centuries and the many nuances and developments in it.\nThis will be followed by an interactive Q&amp\;A with the audience.\n \n \nAbout the book:\nStories\, whether written or drawn\, are always moving\, reshaped by every generation that inherits and retells them. India has a long and rich history of visual storytelling\, from temple walls and painted scrolls to comics\, graphic novels and webcomics. Published by the Museum of Art and Photography\, A Moving Line traces this history\, revealing unexpected connections between works that are rarely considered together.\nThe eight essays and eleven graphic narratives in this collection range from the timeless to the future-forward. Bringing together contributions by scholars\, practitioners and artists\, this book explores the many nuances and developments in sequential storytelling.\nA Moving Line celebrates a medium that has always been\, and continues to be\, inherently visual.\nMeet the speakers:\nRahil Mohsin is a Bangalore-based comic artist\, writer\, and co-founder of Hallubol\, the world’s first bilingual Dakhni-English comic series. With over 15 years in comics and illustration\, he has worked with publishers\, both international and local including Scout Comics\, Scholastic\, Sufi Comics and Comixense and is a familiar face in the thriving independent Indian comics scene. He has illustrated children’s books for Room to Read\, while Pratham's Fayu &amp\; Dariya Ka Jinn marks his debut as both writer and illustrator. His work explores language\, folklore\, memory\, food\, and everyday life through comics and picture books. Rooted in his Dakhni Muslim identity and upbringing in Bangalore\, his practice celebrates multilingual storytelling\, cultural memory\, neighbourhoods\, and South Indian experiences.\nMia Shay Jose (she/they) is a trans artist and researcher from Kerala\, currently based in New Delhi. Led by a keen sense of narrative\, her work probes questions of gender\, inheritance and embodiment in cultural stories\, informed by her lived experiences of transition: of body\, culture and faith. She approaches systems both through the lens of a transgender body and that of a legal researcher\, searching for a reconciliation of conflicted parts essential to the self. Over the last 2 years\, this search has led to Negotiations\, a comic travelogue charting the policing of non-binary bodies across public spaces\, Regards Your Skin\, an anthology around self-policing and motherhood\, and a public mural with trans communities in Kerala. Her primary interest is in the physical body as the primary site of violence - inflicted both by a deeply binary society\, and as a consequence\, the self. Across illustrations\, writings\, collage\, installations and comics\, her works are grounded in the dialogue between constructed identities and policed spaces.\nMeet the moderator:\nKriti Monga brings over two decades of design experience to her multi-disciplinary practice\, blending artistic expression\, strategic design\, and hands-on craftsmanship. The founder-director of the acclaimed Turmeric Design\, her work spans brand building\, book design\, visual art\, illustration\, and mentorship. She also teaches professional design and typography programs globally.\n
LOCATION:7/1 Edward Road\, Off Queens Road\,\, Bengaluru\, Karnataka\, 560051\, in
URL:https://events.champaca.in/champaca/book-discussion-a-moving-line-evolving-identities-in-comics-and-graphic-narratives/euZ0Jt
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SUMMARY:Test for Upcoming Event at Champaca Vasanth Nagar
LOCATION:7/1 Edward Road\, Off Queens Road\, Bengaluru - 560052\, us
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