THE BOOKWALLAH A ROVING WRITERS FESTIVAL
The Bookwallah in Pictures – Part 2 – Goa Bangalore
In which the Bookwallahs wait for a train in 36 degree heat; travel for 18 hours in a 3AC train carriage, minus the AC; crash the Men’s Bar at the Bangalore Club; perform emergency repairs to the travelling library; watch a fire and fireworks; drink coconut water; join forces with the Bangalore Literature festival to [...]
Bookwallah Books on the street
Books from the Bookwallah’s roving library go walkabout on the streets of India.
The Bookwallah in pictures – part 1
In which the Bookwallah writers arrive in Mumbai; find themselves in a strange hotel; talk about feminism and fiction and rhyme-schemes and revolution; put up and pack down a travelling library; read stories to hundreds of kids; walk late at night through Bandra; visit the Mazgaon fish markets at dawn; catch their first train; deal [...]
An Interview with Sudeep Sen
By Ziaul Karim, executive editor, Jamini, an international arts magazine & former literary editor of The Daily Star. “Art in its purest form never reveals all”, writes Sudeep Sen, as evident in the unfathomable depth and beauty of a ‘Bharatanatyam Dancer’. This inspired line from his poem serves as a fascinating commentary on his poetry. [...]
The Bookwallah Catalogue
About the design: Copyboy and Bookwallah Copy Boy is Naasicaa Larsen and Geoff Riding. Together we run a small and mobile graphic design studio in Melbourne, Australia. The studio practice is driven by a collaborative ethos — the sharing of passion and trust as the basis of our practice. Basically, we want to collaborate with [...]
Meet the authors: Q&A with Chandrahas Choudhury
Chandrahas Choudhury is a novelist and literary critic based in Delhi. He is the author of the novel Arzee the Dwarf (HarperCollins, 2009). The book was shortlisted for the Commonwealth First Book Award and appears this year in German and Spanish translations under the title The Little King of Bombay. The Bookwallah asks Chandrahas about [...]
Meet the authors: A Q&A with Benjamin Law
Benjamin Law’s a journalist and non-fiction writer who tackles serious things in hilarious ways. He’s widely published in traditional media, with two books, writing in fifty publications and plenty of TV / radio appearances; he’s also making his mark via social media. He has 20,000 followers on twitter and is famous for his arguments with [...]
Literature Live! Mumbai LitFest
First stop: Mumbai! The Bookwallah joins forces with the Literature Live! Mumbai LitFest, presenting alongside many of India’s best-loved writers at the National Centre for Performing Arts. Learn the art of writing memoir with Benjamin Law. Hear Kirsty Murray on writing cross-cultural narratives, or take her workshop on writing for children. Annie Zaidi discusses long-form [...]
The Bookwallah: a roving mini-writers festival
The Bookwallah takes six writers and an ingenious travelling library across India by train. Three Indian and three Australian writers journey through the cities and towns of modern India in search of stories, conversations and connections. Poet Sudeep Sen, novelist and critic Chandrahas Choudhury, and journalist and fiction writer Annie Zaidi join novelist Michelle De [...]
The Bookwallah is a project of the Asialink International Writing Program at the University of Melbourne.
