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Karthika

@karthikavk.bsky.social
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Publisher, Westland Books. Posting mostly about books, writers, life in publishing, and, of course, Beagle mine.

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Westland Books @westlandbooks.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
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!
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Anushree Nande @anushreenande.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
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 😊
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Westland Books @westlandbooks.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
The very first IF anthology of new Indian SFF is here! Pre-order Between Worlds edited by @gautambhatia88.bsky.social: amzn.in/d/2R0LCJx
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Ipsita Chakravarty @psemolina3.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
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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asawari @asawari.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Make friends with writers. They need you more than you need them.
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Gana Kedlaya @ganak.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
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
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Karthika @karthikavk.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
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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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Thank you to @mridulakoshy.bsky.social for this conversation about public libraries, published today in @scroll.in
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Mridula Koshy (she/her) @mridulakoshy.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
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.
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Karthika @karthikavk.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
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.
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Karthika @karthikavk.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Look who just won the Crossword prize for fiction in Mumbai today! Saharu Nusaiba Kannanari!
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Karthika @karthikavk.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
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
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Karthika @karthikavk.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
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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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Non-Indian folks who're interested in buying a copy of THE SENTENCE, it seems that Midland Bookshop is delivering worldwide. 👇
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Karthika @karthikavk.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
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.
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Karthika @karthikavk.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
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!
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Karthika @karthikavk.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
'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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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
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...
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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.
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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
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.
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Karthika @karthikavk.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
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
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Karthika @karthikavk.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
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 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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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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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 28/10/2024
THE SENTENCE is out in the world today. Available at your local bookshop, and to order online: www.amazon.in/dp/936045152...
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Karthika @karthikavk.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
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.
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Karthika @karthikavk.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
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!
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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Bahrisons Delhi has very helpfully put THE SENTENCE face-up for you to see - and get - when you enter the bookshop. 😬
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Karthika @karthikavk.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
A new book from an author after a gap of several years is always cause for celebration. This one has a really cool cover, don't you think? Mental health preoccupations in a social media age, that's what the novel grapples with. #WestlandBooks
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Karthika @karthikavk.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
The best part of visiting family in Bengaluru is frequent encounters with hungry-for-food-and-attention Podi. Chutney rarely appears, preferring to snuggle in wardrobes. And then there's Zara, on the lookout for faces to lick and birds to chase. #catsanddogs #catnames
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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Today at Crossword Bookshop Bombay, an amazing conversation about The Sentence with Kanan Gill, ranging from SF to literary inspirations to moral luck and the death penalty. Get your copy in your local bookshop, or here: www.amazon.in/gp/aw/d/9360... P/c: Akhil Katyal.
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Karthika @karthikavk.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Ta-da! @gautambhatia88.bsky.social at the release of his new novel in Mumbai. In conversation with him was Kanan Gill. #IF #Crossword #TheSentence
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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Woke up to this detailed - and generous - review of The Sentence in today’s Hindustan Times: www.hindustantimes.com/books/review... Remember: the book is now available in your local (Indian) bookshop, and online! www.amazon.in/gp/aw/d/B0DL...
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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
In today’s Sunday Express Magazine, a conversation about The Sentence and some of its inspirations, from the Paris Commune to Spain’s Pact of Forgetting, and of course Ursula Le Guin’s The Dispossessed. You can get the book here: www.amazon.in/gp/aw/d/9360...
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Karthika @karthikavk.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
How I wish I could be there!
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Runalong Womble @runalongwomble.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
New Review - a gripping SF legal thriller that makes us ask ourselves questions of law, justice, revolution and doing the right thing. I strongly recommend The Sentence by Gautam Bhatia www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2024/11...
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The Sentence by Gautam Bhatia — Runalong The Shelves
I would like to thank the author for an advance copy of this novel in exchange for a fair and honest review Publisher – Westland Books Published – Out Now Price – Currently only available in ...
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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 04/10/2024
Delighted to finally share the cover and the blurb for THE SENTENCE. It is now available for pre-orders, and will soon be in bookshops near you. Pre-order here: amzn.in/d/770TMTq Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...
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Karthika @karthikavk.bsky.social · 18/07/2024
Looking forward to creating a superb new anthology with @gautambhatia88.bsky.social.
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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 23/06/2024
Hopefully, as SF reading circles grow and flourish, they will become alternative spaces for conversations that lead to books, outside of the heavily gate-kept SF publishing industry. It won’t be the *goal* of a Circle, but it’s a lovely by-product.
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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 23/06/2024
was also special, as both Gigi and @karthikavk.bsky.social - who also dropped by today - were early members of the Reading Circle, so we’re definitely claiming BIOPECULIAR as our own: from reading circle to books and whole SF imprints. 😬
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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 23/06/2024
Today, the 20th meeting of the Delhi Science Fiction Reading Circle, was a special one. Hometown author @gigiganguly.bsky.social dropped by for a discussion of BIOPECULIAR, a collection of climate fiction short stories featuring the non-human world, from sentient clouds to corvid inspectors.
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Arturo Serrano @carturo222.bsky.social · 17/04/2024
Gigi Ganguly's novella "One Arm Shorter than the Other" was brilliant and touching. I can't wait to read her new collection.
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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 17/04/2024
Wishing India's first (?) dedicated sff/speculative fiction imprint a long life.
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Karthika @karthikavk.bsky.social · 16/04/2024
The first book in #IF is out, and with the most perfect cover. Odd, playful, witty, it's a whole ride, story after story. #SF #WestlandBooks
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Karthika @karthikavk.bsky.social · 14/04/2024
Come September, The Sentence will be here!
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Karthika @karthikavk.bsky.social · 13/04/2024
My first post here just had to be about this new list of books we are excited to publish in India. First book coming soon! @gautambhatia88.bsky.social said @bsky.app is the place for the buzziest SF convo, hoping our writers will find lots of readers too.
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