Boighar Books
Click a spine, or drag it towards you, and it comes off the shelf and opens on the reading table — cover, blurb and all. Each spine is as thick as its book.
Point at a spine to read it; pull it to open it.
12 on the shelf · — of reading at your pace
Novels
by Anirban Sen-Dey
Three generations of the Basu family share one flat, one tram line and one very stubborn grandmother. A warm, funny novel about the year the trams almost stopped running in north Kolkata.
312 pages · Paperback · Kite Press · 2025
≈ at your pace ·
Pull any spine from the shelf — it opens here.
The shop has four sections, each with its brass label. Choose one and the shelf and the tables below keep only its books.
The same twelve, laid face up. Every cover here is set by us in the book's own colour.
The Tram to ShyambazarAnirban Sen-Dey
Anirban Sen-Dey
Kite Press · 2025
Three generations of the Basu family share one flat, one tram line and one very stubborn grandmother. A warm, funny novel about the year the trams almost stopped running in north Kolkata.
at your pace
Salt on the VerandahMeenakshi Rao
Meenakshi Rao
Coromandel Books · 2024
Two sisters return to their mother's house in Mangaluru to sell it, and spend a monsoon finding reasons not to. Quiet, sharp and full of the smell of the sea.
at your pace
A House Called MonsoonTara Kuriakose
Tara Kuriakose
Kite Press · 2023
A sprawling family saga set in a rubber-estate bungalow in Kottayam, told by the house itself across sixty years of weddings, quarrels and rain.
at your pace
Eleven Rivers, One MotherKamalini Mitra
Kamalini Mitra
Translated from Bengali by Sudipta Ghosh · Ferry Books · 2025
A boatwoman's daughter crosses the Sundarbans to find the brothers her mother gave away. First time in English, in a translation that keeps the river's rhythm.
at your pace
The Weaver's LedgerH. S. Nagaraj
H. S. Nagaraj
Translated from Kannada by Priya Hegde · Ferry Books · 2024
An account book kept by a silk weaver in Molakalmuru becomes, page by page, the story of a whole street. Short, exact and unexpectedly moving.
at your pace
Songs the Ferryman KeptBijoy Mohapatra
Bijoy Mohapatra
Translated from Odia by Lipika Das · Ferry Books · 2025
Linked stories from a river crossing near Cuttack, each one a passenger's life told in the time it takes to reach the other bank.
at your pace
On Borrowing BooksNeel Chowdhury
Neel Chowdhury
Paper Lantern · 2024
Fourteen essays on lending libraries, pavement stalls, books never returned and the friends who kept them. A love letter to College Street and every reader who ever said "I'll give it back".
at your pace
Small Hours in Big CitiesRhea D'Souza
Rhea D'Souza
Paper Lantern · 2025
Night walks through Mumbai, Kolkata, Bengaluru and Delhi — night-shift nurses, chai stalls, the last bus — written by someone who never sleeps before two.
at your pace
What the Pin Code KnowsArjun Nambiar
Arjun Nambiar
Coromandel Books · 2023
A history of Bengaluru told one neighbourhood at a time, from Basavanagudi's bull temple to the lakes that became layouts. Maps drawn by hand.
at your pace
Paper BoatsIshita Bose
Ishita Bose
Small Hours Press · 2025
Forty short poems about childhood monsoons, school notebooks and the people we fold into memory. A book to keep by the bed.
at your pace
The Lantern HoursFarhan Qadri
Farhan Qadri
Small Hours Press · 2024
Ghazals and free verse written during the power cuts of one Lucknow summer. Read them slowly, aloud if you can.
at your pace
Notes from a TerraceLekha Menon
Lekha Menon
Small Hours Press · 2025
Very short poems — some only three lines — written on a Kochi terrace over a year of mornings. Malayalam on the left page, English on the right.
at your pace
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Each of us writes a card for the book we can't stop recommending. They hang under the shelf in the shop; here they are too.
The Tram to Shyambazar
Read it on a rainy Sunday with the windows open. I laughed out loud on page twelve and had to put it down for a minute on page two hundred.
Eleven Rivers, One Mother
My grandmother would have argued with every chapter and then read it twice. The translation sings — I checked it against the Bengali.
Paper Boats
Ninety-six pages and I have read it four times. Give it to someone who says they don't read poetry.
Nothing goes up on the shelf until it has been through these four hands.
One of us reads the whole book. If none of us finishes it, it does not go on the shelf.
The reader writes a shelf-talker by hand: who the book is for and when to read it.
Spine out, between two books it will get along with. Twelve at a time, changed with the month.
Your order is wrapped in yesterday's newspaper and tied with string, with a copy of the card tucked inside.
We are a short walk from the Bull Temple. Come and browse, or write to us for a book we don't have on the shelf — we will try to find it.
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