Payal Kapadia

This is the diary of a maidless mom in Mumbai who wants only one thing: a perfect maid to live happily forever after with. That's hard when our diarist finds herself living with a mother and grandmother who believe that every maid who enters should answer to three bosses. She finds herself juggling work, baby, home and maid and falls victim to a strange and specific Indian disease: maidlomania.

Maidless in Mumbai

'I wish I was a writer, ' sighed Wisha. 'Well, you are Wisha Wozzariter, ' said the Bookworm. 'So I am! But I don't quite know where to begin.' 'At the beginning, of course, ' said the Bookworm, rolling his ey

Wisha Wozzaritr

Twice Upon a Time

THE WORLD'S MOST HORRID SCHOOL JUST GOT MORE HORRID! When Granny Grit is called away on a most mysterious mission, twelve-year-old Ferg and his friends are left at the mercy of Cook Fracas’s frenzied food fights, Colonel Craven’s manic panics and Miss Nottynuf’s nervous nail-biting. To make matters worse, the Grand Plan is still missing and the kids must find it before someone truly awful does. Can Ferg and his friends survive another term at the world’s most horrid school? Return to Horrid High and find out!

Back to School

Horrid High

‘I wish I was a writer,’ sighed Wisha. ‘Well, you are Wisha Wozzariter,’ said the Bookworm. ‘So I am! But I don’t quite know where to begin.’ ‘At the beginning, of course,’ said the Bookworm, rolling his eyes. Ten-year-old Wisha wishes to be a writer. When she meets Bookworm, she stops wishing and starts writing. With him, she rides on the Thought Express to the Marketplace of Ideas, the Superhero Salon and the Bargain Bazaar, and encounters a motley crew of characters. Along the way, she discovers the creative process by which anything beautiful and lasting is created, a process in which Faith, Luck and Destiny play no mean part. Roger Dahl’s zany illustrations bring Wisha’s imaginative world to life. Join Wisha on this rollicking writer’s adventure and find out how she finally fulfils her dream of becoming a writer!

Wisha Wozzariter

The story of the father of the Indian Constitution Born in April 1891into a poor Mahar family, Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was a victim of caste discrimination for most of his early life. And while India struggled against the oppressions of British Raj, Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, popularly known as Babasaheb, continued his struggle against the oppressions of the Indian caste system, the social discriminations against Dalits in India. He struggled so the underprivileged sections of Indian society could enjoy equal political rights and be treated with equal respect. An Indian jurist, politician, philosopher, anthropologist, historian and economist, Babasaheb was one of the earliest Dalit’s to earn a college degree. He grew to be the principal architect of Indian constitution. He published journals, periodicals, and launched active movements for social and political freedom for India’s Dalit community. Ambedkar, in the later years of his life, turned to Buddhism, preached it and finally made a formal conversion. This book explores the life and times of the independent India's first law minister who fought against the discriminations inflicted by his own countrymen, who lived his life acting only in the interest of people. Payal Kapadia is the author of the very popular Wisha Wozzawriter published by Puffin in 2012. She lives in Bombay

Saviour of the Masses

B R Ambedkar

Andreas Huyssen

Arjun Appadurai

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev

Nalini Malani

Johan Pijnappel

One of India's most influential contemporary artists, Nalini Malani (born 1946) creates paintings, wall drawings, theatrical works, video and shadow plays. Inherited iconographies and cherished cultural stereotypes are challenged from a contemporary urban, internationalist point of view. This catalogue accompanies her show at Documenta 13.

Payal Kapadia

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