Mandala Book Point

04/09/2025

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At the Kathmandu - Kalinga Literary Festival 2025, we celebrate the remarkable journey of one of India’s most beloved cinema legends.
Join Amol Palekar and Sandhya Gokhale in conversation with Buddhisagar as they reflect on a lifetime in film, storytelling, and art that continues to inspire generations.
🗓️ 14th September 2025
⏰ 12:10 PM – 01:00 PM
📍 Himalaya Hotel, Kathmandu
A session of stories, memories, and timeless reflections on cinema and creativity.

04/09/2025

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At the Kathmandu - Kalinga Literary Festival 2025, we bring together leading journalists who have crossed into the world of storytelling through fiction and beyond.

Join Ananta Vijay, Jai Prakash Pandey, Basant Basnet, and Dr. Dwarika Prasad Uniyal as they explore the intersections of news, narrative, and imagination.

🗓️ 13th September 2025
⏰ 03:15 PM – 04:00 PM
📍 Himalaya Hotel, Kathmandu

A session that examines how truth, reporting, and creativity weave together in the evolving world of literature and media.

04/09/2025

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At the Kathmandu - Kalinga Literary Festival 2025, we spotlight the craft of translation that brings local voices to the world stage.
Join Deepa Bhasthi, International Booker Prize 2025 winner, in conversation with Vineet Gill as she shares her journey of translating Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp and how language becomes a bridge across cultures.
🗓️ 13th September 2025
⏰ 03:15 PM – 04:00 PM
📍 Himalaya Hotel, Kathmandu
A session that celebrates the power of translation, literature, and global literary exchange.

03/09/2025

From grabbing her favorite read at Mandala Book Point to attending it's launch in Kochi. Such a happy moment for book lover. Big thanks to Kumudini for the support 🙏🙏

02/09/2025

Romanchit Jiwan: An Autobiography
- Lokl Raj Baral

02/09/2025

War and Power: Who Wins War and Why
- Phillips Payson O'Brien

War and power are two of the most-widely discussed issues in all of human history, and yet they are, time and again, misunderstood — often disastrously so.

Whilst we might think the outcome of war is determined by so-called ‘Great Powers’ who dominate their opponents with their impressive size and military prowess, the reality of modern conflict, as renowned strategic historian Professor Phillips Payson O’Brien demonstrates, is very different. He urges us instead to look for ‘Full Spectrum Powers’.

For if we are considering how powerful a nation is and who will win a war, we need to think less about weapons, and more about the economies and societies that produce them; less about individual battles, and more about sustaining campaigns and alliances in which states operate.

01/09/2025

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Book Online Tickets for 4th Kathmandu Kalinga Literary Festival , Lalitpur. Kalinga LiteraryFestival (KLF) is one of the leading Literary festival in World from India. From 2022 Kalinga Literary Festival (KLF) organizing Kathmandu Kalinga Literary Festival in Nepal capital city. 4th Kathmandu- Kalin...

01/09/2025

Nalanda: How It Changed the World - Abhay K

Much about Nalanda remains shrouded in mystery. When was it founded? Who founded it? Who studied and taught there? What subjects were offered? How many students and teachers were there? Was Nalanda a university in the modern sense? And what ultimately led to its downfall? Nalanda by Abhay K. unravels these questions, telling the story of the rise, fall, and re-rise of Nalanda Mahavihara. Through extensive research, the book explores Nalanda’s contributions in fields such as science, mathematics, philosophy, art, architecture, and poetry. It also highlights the great luminaries who elevated its unparalleled reputation as the preeminent seat of knowledge, as well as the foreign scholars who visited the celebrated monastery.

Broad in sweep and deep in history, Nalanda is a thrilling read that sheds new light on Nalanda and its journey over millennia.

01/09/2025

I Ching or book of Changes - The Richard Wilhelm translation with foreword by C G Jung

At least 5000 years old, the I Ching is a book of oracles containing the whole of human experience. Used for divination, it is a method of exploring the unconscious; through the symbolism of its hexagrams we are guided towards the solution of difficult problems and life situations. It can also be read as a book of wisdom revealing the laws of life to which we must all attune ourselves if we are to live in peace and harmony.

31/08/2025

Too Good to be True by Prajakta Koli

Talking about her debut book, Prajakta says, ‘I always knew I could start writing a book. But not in a million years did I think I would actually finish one. Too Good to Be True is a fictional piece of my heart that has brought a lot of happiness to me. I’ve always enjoyed the process of storytelling but writing this book has opened a whole new door of possibilities in my mind. It is easily one of the most challenging yet most special pieces of content I have worked on so far. I hope it brings as much joy to you as it did to me. Lots of love to HarperCollins for making this journey even more special. Here’s to romance and everything that it brings to us!’

Poulomi Chatterjee, Executive Publisher – HarperCollins India, adds, ‘Prajakta’s connect with her large and ever-growing audience is phenomenal, and her versatility as a creator across media remarkable. We at HarperCollins are thrilled to be partnering with her on newest exciting venture – a funny, heartwarming, sharply observed and incredibly relatable rom-com (that is) Too Good to Be True! As publishers and editors, we’re constantly on the lookout for that one fresh and addictive voice that tells a love story we know will touch a million hearts. Prajakta’s book is that, and so much more. I, for one, am delighted that she has channeled her talent and her passion for books towards writing this one. It’s sure to give readers all the feels and have them smitten, and I am thrilled to have published it!’

31/08/2025

Heart Lamp: Selected Stories by Banu Mushtaq

In Heart Lamp, Banu Mushtaq exquisitely captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India. Published originally in the Kannada, these portraits of family and community tensions testify to Mushtaq’s years as a journalist and lawyer, in which she tirelessly championed women’s rights and protested all forms of caste and religious oppression. Written in a style at once witty, vivid, colloquial, moving and excoriating, it’s in her characters – the sparky children, the audacious grandmothers, the buffoonish maulvis and thug brothers, the oft-hapless husbands, and the mothers above all, surviving their feelings at great cost – that Mushtaq emerges as an astonishing writer and observer of human nature, building disconcerting emotional heights out of a rich spoken style. Her opus has garnered both censure from conservative quarters as well India’s most prestigious literary awards; this is a collection sure to be read for years to come.

31/08/2025

A History of the Chola Empire: Lords of Earth and Sea
- Anirudh Kanisetti

A year ago, before the revolution, Salama watched her brother marry her best friend, Layla, and wondered when her own love story might begin. Now she works at the hospital – helping those she can, closing the eyes of those she can't. Layla and her unborn baby are all Salama has left.

Unless you count Khawf. But he's a hallucination; a symptom of the horrors she's seen. Every day he urges Salama to leave. Every day she refuses.

Until she crosses paths with Kenan, the boy with the vivid green eyes, who wants to stay and risk his life for everything Syria could be …