My Name is Amrita… is the story of an intensely sensitive and talented girl who grows up to be one of India’s foremost painters. It reads like a diary, and […]
Month: January 2019
Cave Art: The First Paintings
How did art begin? Where did colour come from, before paints in tubes and bottles? Taking a long step back in history, this book explores how the world’s first artists […]
The House That Sonabai Built
From oppressive loneliness, Sonabai Rajawar ‘makes’ her way into a world of beauty and joy! An introduction to the life and unique creative vision of a quietly strong, self-taught artist, […]
A for Ajrakh: The A to Z of Block Printing
What do ancient fragments of cloth found in Egypt have to do with modern-day Gujarat? The answer starts with A — and sets us off through the alphabet, building with […]
A Tail of Two Dogs
We have news for you! Remember we had some questions for Abhay and Nanditta of Can’t Stop Cody fame regarding their reasons for locating the story in San Francisco? Well, […]
Drop everything and read!
Despite missing three members, this was perhaps the noisiest session yet. Everyone had lots to say, first about the stories they were writing, and second, about Manjula Padmanabhan’s Shrinking Vanita. […]
We’re so lucky!
We’re so lucky! This time we met in the bright and cheerful bookstore itself. We sat in a circle surrounded by exciting books in many languages and for sure it […]
I love books!
I luv books. I loooooove books. I liiike books. I .. mm .. like books.I LOOOOOOVE BOOKS. These were some of the responses at our very first, the inaugural, meeting […]