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Shalimar to distribute Navayana
We are extremely pleased to announce that at a meeting at the World Book Fair in New Delhi, Navayana have appointed Shalimar Books as their UK stockholding distributor. About Navayana Named after Dr...
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Book Reviews – Of Gardens and Graves
Of Gardens and Graves Two reviews of the Three Essays Collective title Of Gardens and Graves: Essays on Kashmir and Poems in Translation by Suvir Kaul. As Huzaifa Pandit points out in the first review...
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London Radical Bookfair 2018
The London Radical Bookfair 2018, organised by the Alliance of Radical Bookshops, will be taking place on Saturday 2nd June at Goldsmith’s University. Please save the date ! The bookfair will also...
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Gauri Lankesh
The Way I See It: A Gauri Lankesh Reader Gauri Lankesh was an activist-journalist from Bangalore, Karnataka. She was shot to death outside her home in Rajarajeshwari Nagar on 5 September 2017. At the...
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Exhibition of Indian Art at the Rustique Cafe
Although Shalimar is primarily a bookshop, we have, through Soma, retained a section on Indian folk craft and Indian art. At present we have an exhibition of selected paintings at the Rustique...
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Shaheen Bagh – A Graphic Recollection
Shaheen Bagh: A Graphic Recollection is a graphic account of the most famous political sit-in of recent times, which started on one side of a public thoroughfare in Delhi in December 2019 and...
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Stop the persecution of author Teesta Setalvad
Statement by the International Union of Left Publishers on the arrest of Teesta Setalvad The International Union of Left Publishers condemns the arrest of Indian activist and LeftWord Books author...
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Growing up with Shalimar Books
The ethos and vision behind Shalimar Books (formerly Soma Books) was always more far reaching than exclusively being an Indian book and craft specialist in London. It was Independent Publishing...
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Quiet Revolutions: A Celebration of Radical Bookshops
We are very pleased to be participating in the Quiet Revolutions event at the Barbican on Saturday 26th November. The event consists of a book fair, discussions and workshops exploring the legacies...
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UK Events for How Long Can The Moon Be Caged?
Suchitra Vijayan and Francesca Recchia, the authors of How Long Can the Moon be Caged: Voices of Indian Political Prisoners, are having three events to talk about the book and discuss the situation in...
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