Champaca

Jobeth Warjri engages Lian Dousel in conversation about the horror and the human in Lian’s debut collection, Peace in the Land of the Dead.

📅⏰️:10th October 2026, Saturday | 6:00 PM (seating begins at 5:45 PM)

📍: Champaca Bookstore, Vasanth Nagar

Dear readers,
Thank you for the quiet hours you’ve spent among these shelves, for the conversations at the counter, and for choosing to keep returning to our store at Vasanth Nagar with your lists, your questions, and your love for books.

How does something fleeting stay? A line, a memory, a passing thought. And how does it begin to take shape as a story?

Three lines become four. A small shift, but something opens up. A rhythm, a direction, a possibility you hadn’t quite seen before.

Join us at Champaca for the launch of The Complex by Karan Mahajan, in conversation with Dharini Bhaskar.

Set in a sprawling family compound in Delhi, the novel follows the Chopra family across decades as they navigate power, inheritance, and the pull of a changing country.