Karthika
@karthikavk.bsky.social
Publisher, Westland Books. Posting mostly about books, writers, life in publishing, and, of course, Beagle mine.
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The Last Dragoners of Bowbazaar is a story about Ru. Ru is a boy from nowhere. When he asks his parents where his family is from, they tell him he is descended from nomads. But even nomads must come from somewhere.
Swipe to read the praise for @indrapramitdas.bsky.social’s moving novella!
Swipe to read the praise for @indrapramitdas.bsky.social’s moving novella!
August 7, 2025 at 8:42 AM
The Last Dragoners of Bowbazaar is a story about Ru. Ru is a boy from nowhere. When he asks his parents where his family is from, they tell him he is descended from nomads. But even nomads must come from somewhere.
Swipe to read the praise for @indrapramitdas.bsky.social’s moving novella!
Swipe to read the praise for @indrapramitdas.bsky.social’s moving novella!
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I'm so excited to share that I have a short story in this beautiful anthology out on August 18!
Preorder at the link below, and please share with any SFF fans you know 😊
Preorder at the link below, and please share with any SFF fans you know 😊
The very first IF anthology of new Indian SFF is here!
Pre-order Between Worlds edited by @gautambhatia88.bsky.social: amzn.in/d/2R0LCJx
Pre-order Between Worlds edited by @gautambhatia88.bsky.social: amzn.in/d/2R0LCJx
August 8, 2025 at 10:00 AM
I'm so excited to share that I have a short story in this beautiful anthology out on August 18!
Preorder at the link below, and please share with any SFF fans you know 😊
Preorder at the link below, and please share with any SFF fans you know 😊
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The very first IF anthology of new Indian SFF is here!
Pre-order Between Worlds edited by @gautambhatia88.bsky.social: amzn.in/d/2R0LCJx
Pre-order Between Worlds edited by @gautambhatia88.bsky.social: amzn.in/d/2R0LCJx
August 8, 2025 at 7:13 AM
The very first IF anthology of new Indian SFF is here!
Pre-order Between Worlds edited by @gautambhatia88.bsky.social: amzn.in/d/2R0LCJx
Pre-order Between Worlds edited by @gautambhatia88.bsky.social: amzn.in/d/2R0LCJx
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No written word can do justice to the power and beauty of the stories I heard in Kashmir. But I tried. Thrilled to announce the India edition of my book, with lovely cover art by Basita Shah, is out on 7th July. Pre-orders here: amzn.in/d/7NuVhNn @westlandbooks.bsky.social
June 25, 2025 at 6:42 AM
No written word can do justice to the power and beauty of the stories I heard in Kashmir. But I tried. Thrilled to announce the India edition of my book, with lovely cover art by Basita Shah, is out on 7th July. Pre-orders here: amzn.in/d/7NuVhNn @westlandbooks.bsky.social
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Make friends with writers. They need you more than you need them.
December 21, 2024 at 11:02 AM
Make friends with writers. They need you more than you need them.
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Fav non-fiction:
My people shall live – Leila Khaled
Halla Bol – Sudhanva Deshpande
What have you left behind – Bushra al-Maqtari. Translated by Sawad Hussain
Syeda X – Neha Dixit
Fav fiction:
Brotherless Night – VV Ganeshanathan
The Sentence – Gautam Bhatia
24 Hours with Gaspar
My people shall live – Leila Khaled
Halla Bol – Sudhanva Deshpande
What have you left behind – Bushra al-Maqtari. Translated by Sawad Hussain
Syeda X – Neha Dixit
Fav fiction:
Brotherless Night – VV Ganeshanathan
The Sentence – Gautam Bhatia
24 Hours with Gaspar
December 21, 2024 at 7:23 AM
Fav non-fiction:
My people shall live – Leila Khaled
Halla Bol – Sudhanva Deshpande
What have you left behind – Bushra al-Maqtari. Translated by Sawad Hussain
Syeda X – Neha Dixit
Fav fiction:
Brotherless Night – VV Ganeshanathan
The Sentence – Gautam Bhatia
24 Hours with Gaspar
My people shall live – Leila Khaled
Halla Bol – Sudhanva Deshpande
What have you left behind – Bushra al-Maqtari. Translated by Sawad Hussain
Syeda X – Neha Dixit
Fav fiction:
Brotherless Night – VV Ganeshanathan
The Sentence – Gautam Bhatia
24 Hours with Gaspar
We made a little video that captures the vibe of the novel, just to entice those folks who want everything presold to them.
December 17, 2024 at 7:03 AM
We made a little video that captures the vibe of the novel, just to entice those folks who want everything presold to them.
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Thank you to @mridulakoshy.bsky.social for this conversation about public libraries, published today in @scroll.in
"‘When we read, we are sovereign over our own mind, a sovereignty that can never be abridged," @edrabinski.bsky.social in conversation with @mridulakoshy.bsky.social
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scroll.in/article/1076...
‘Government responsibility to create a free public library system’: Former librarian Emily Drabinski
‘When we read, we are sovereign over our own mind, a sovereignty that can never be abridged,’ Drabinski told Mridula Koshy of The Community Library Project.
scroll.in
December 15, 2024 at 2:28 PM
Thank you to @mridulakoshy.bsky.social for this conversation about public libraries, published today in @scroll.in
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Our beautiful library in Khirki has seen too many evictions and too much displacement of members. Please support our campaign to build a permanent building.
The Community Library Project is intent on preserving the space we have created with the community without threat of eviction or external interference.
Say YES to #PalacesForThePeople.
DONATE bit.ly/3zkINeZ
#PalacesForThePeople #10YearsOfTCLP #DuniyaSabki
Say YES to #PalacesForThePeople.
DONATE bit.ly/3zkINeZ
#PalacesForThePeople #10YearsOfTCLP #DuniyaSabki
December 11, 2024 at 3:30 AM
Our beautiful library in Khirki has seen too many evictions and too much displacement of members. Please support our campaign to build a permanent building.
It was one hell of an evening with all these extraordinary, articulate women, had to share a glimpse. Romila Thapar at 93, sharp and funny, and withering when it came to the controversy stirred up by Mr Dalrymple's comment about the inadequacy of professional historians.
December 10, 2024 at 2:40 AM
It was one hell of an evening with all these extraordinary, articulate women, had to share a glimpse. Romila Thapar at 93, sharp and funny, and withering when it came to the controversy stirred up by Mr Dalrymple's comment about the inadequacy of professional historians.
Look who just won the Crossword prize for fiction in Mumbai today! Saharu Nusaiba Kannanari!
December 8, 2024 at 2:22 PM
Look who just won the Crossword prize for fiction in Mumbai today! Saharu Nusaiba Kannanari!
Listening to these amazing people speaking powerfully and with deep experience about people's movements and libraries as safe spaces for local communities. Hadn't realised the extent of antipathy against public libraries in the US, but do now, thanks to @edrabinski.bsky.social
December 7, 2024 at 6:07 AM
Listening to these amazing people speaking powerfully and with deep experience about people's movements and libraries as safe spaces for local communities. Hadn't realised the extent of antipathy against public libraries in the US, but do now, thanks to @edrabinski.bsky.social
I didn't know what a renga was before this beautiful, meditative dialogue between two poets arrived in my inbox. And now I can't wait to discover more, though these poems are set in Paris in grief time, so yes, there's the weight of that too.
December 5, 2024 at 12:09 PM
I didn't know what a renga was before this beautiful, meditative dialogue between two poets arrived in my inbox. And now I can't wait to discover more, though these poems are set in Paris in grief time, so yes, there's the weight of that too.
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Non-Indian folks who're interested in buying a copy of THE SENTENCE, it seems that Midland Bookshop is delivering worldwide. 👇
It's thanks to Midland Books, www.midlandbookshop.com/en/
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December 4, 2024 at 1:16 PM
Non-Indian folks who're interested in buying a copy of THE SENTENCE, it seems that Midland Bookshop is delivering worldwide. 👇
I love it when the footnotes in a book can be read as a parallel-track narrative rerouting and making unexpected stops while never going too far from the main story.
December 3, 2024 at 2:31 PM
I love it when the footnotes in a book can be read as a parallel-track narrative rerouting and making unexpected stops while never going too far from the main story.
The best thing about being here is eavesdropping on all the authors in unknown parts having fun or screaming at BS. And I don't have to spend a moment's stress on whether they'll sell or how to market. Just read!
December 3, 2024 at 2:26 AM
The best thing about being here is eavesdropping on all the authors in unknown parts having fun or screaming at BS. And I don't have to spend a moment's stress on whether they'll sell or how to market. Just read!
'one of Bhatia's singular gifts, the art of writing dialogues'. As an editor, it's the thing I find many writers struggle to get right. Not Gautam, who seems to do it intuitively.
In today’s New Indian Express, a detailed and spoiler-free review of The Sentence:
December 1, 2024 at 10:54 AM
'one of Bhatia's singular gifts, the art of writing dialogues'. As an editor, it's the thing I find many writers struggle to get right. Not Gautam, who seems to do it intuitively.
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In today’s @thehindu.com, a conversation about The Sentence, allegory in SF, and how law and world-building come together.
Thank you to Jaideep Unudurti for the conversation:
www.thehindu.com/books/interv...
Thank you to Jaideep Unudurti for the conversation:
www.thehindu.com/books/interv...
Not an allegory of a future India: lawyer and author Gautam Bhatia on his new novel The Sentence
Gautam Bhatia's science-fiction novel "The Sentence" explores a futuristic city divided by class, law, and power struggles.
www.thehindu.com
November 30, 2024 at 5:43 AM
In today’s @thehindu.com, a conversation about The Sentence, allegory in SF, and how law and world-building come together.
Thank you to Jaideep Unudurti for the conversation:
www.thehindu.com/books/interv...
Thank you to Jaideep Unudurti for the conversation:
www.thehindu.com/books/interv...
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ICYMI, my attempt at writing a Ghibli-esque story for adults (of all ages) in prose and set in my hometown Calcutta, a mythic realist tale about an extended family who may be extradimensional refugees. British Fantasy and Subjective Chaos Kind of Award winner, Locus Award nominee.
Out now: THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR, my uncategorisable novella out about Ru, a 'boy from nowhere' growing up in 90s/00s Calcutta, facing the impossibility that his family may be migrants from another reality, & Alice, a neighbour from Chinatown who is pulled close to their secrets. Links below:
November 19, 2024 at 2:18 PM
ICYMI, my attempt at writing a Ghibli-esque story for adults (of all ages) in prose and set in my hometown Calcutta, a mythic realist tale about an extended family who may be extradimensional refugees. British Fantasy and Subjective Chaos Kind of Award winner, Locus Award nominee.
If you've ever tried pulling off a ribbon at a book release, you'll know it's not that simple! #AmolPalekar #Ravish #KavereeBamzai #SandhyaGokhale #MinakshiThakur #Viewfinder #WestlandBooks
November 27, 2024 at 1:20 PM
If you've ever tried pulling off a ribbon at a book release, you'll know it's not that simple! #AmolPalekar #Ravish #KavereeBamzai #SandhyaGokhale #MinakshiThakur #Viewfinder #WestlandBooks
What a high, to find nilanjanaroy.bsky.social and rahulabhatia.bsky.social on this year-end list (And that friends should share space in this way.) #BlackRiver #TheIdentityProject
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100 Notable Books of 2024
Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.
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November 27, 2024 at 2:48 AM
What a high, to find nilanjanaroy.bsky.social and rahulabhatia.bsky.social on this year-end list (And that friends should share space in this way.) #BlackRiver #TheIdentityProject
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THE SENTENCE is out in the world today.
Available at your local bookshop, and to order online:
www.amazon.in/dp/936045152...
Available at your local bookshop, and to order online:
www.amazon.in/dp/936045152...
Amazon.in
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October 28, 2024 at 10:45 AM
THE SENTENCE is out in the world today.
Available at your local bookshop, and to order online:
www.amazon.in/dp/936045152...
Available at your local bookshop, and to order online:
www.amazon.in/dp/936045152...
Aha! Found one of our favourites here~Rahul Bhatia's masterful inquiry into the state of Indian democracy, published by Context in India as The Identity Project.
“This book should be heavy, but it's so readable, so swiftly sketched that it's a page-turner." Yes. And brilliant, insightful, elegant.
“This book should be heavy, but it's so readable, so swiftly sketched that it's a page-turner." Yes. And brilliant, insightful, elegant.
I'm so excited. It's NPR Books We Love Day! Books We Love is NPR's interactive reading guide —fully indexed, categorized and handpicked by NPR staff and freelance writers like me. I wrote about nine of my most beloved 2024 releases.
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Books We Love
Here are 350+ great reads from 2024 hand-picked just for you by NPR staff and trusted critics.
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November 26, 2024 at 3:23 AM
Aha! Found one of our favourites here~Rahul Bhatia's masterful inquiry into the state of Indian democracy, published by Context in India as The Identity Project.
“This book should be heavy, but it's so readable, so swiftly sketched that it's a page-turner." Yes. And brilliant, insightful, elegant.
“This book should be heavy, but it's so readable, so swiftly sketched that it's a page-turner." Yes. And brilliant, insightful, elegant.
Woke up with a deep sense of satisfaction because yes, we've finally got the right cover on this book which I know people are going to take extreme positions on. Love, hate, but no ignore!
November 25, 2024 at 2:21 AM
Woke up with a deep sense of satisfaction because yes, we've finally got the right cover on this book which I know people are going to take extreme positions on. Love, hate, but no ignore!