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How to buy Soul Climate outside India

April 15, 2026

To buy Soul Climate outside India, use this link
https://speakingtigerbooks.stck.me/book/1474806/Soul-Climate

I’m told it arrives pretty soon.

Interview about Soul Climate published

March 18, 2026

This interview with Ranjani Govind in online journal Avadhi
here: https://avadhimag.in/a-book-of-ideas/
“During its writing each book becomes the meaning of my life and is nurtured with times of difficulty and times of joy. Each book changes my life, my self, in some way. Thus they are all dear to me.”

All events in India Dec 2025 to Feb 2026

March 18, 2026

Here are the official events on that tour (uncountable unofficial meetings, conversations, events)…
ALL EVENTS IN INDIA

AMRITSAR: Talks and Q&A at Dav College (6.2.26), Hindu College (5.2.26), Guru Nanak Dev University ((4.2.26))
Majha House, in conversation with Navdeep Suri [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navdeep_Singh_Suri] 3 February 2026
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM
At Mathrubhumi International Festival of Letters (MIFL) (https://www.mbifl.com/) “Soul climate: Nation, memory and imagination” Conversation with Kalyani Vallath 1 February 2026.
Panel “Counter culture currents: Imagining new frontiers” with Amitabha Bagchi and Vivek Shanbhag, moderated by KaiKasi VS 31January 2026
HYDERABAD
Hyderabad Literary Festival https://www.hydlitfest.org/. Panel “Story Memory History” with Ruchir Joshi, moderated by Usha Raman 25 January 2026
BHOPAL
Talks and Q&A at: Maharani Laxmi Bai Government Girls Postgraduate College, 21 January 2026 ; Jagran Lakecity university 20.2.26; Billabong High International School Bhopal 19.1.26
Conversation with Seema Raizada (https://bhopalliteraturefestival.com/event/blf-2024/author/dr-seema-raizada), Q&A and reading at Club Literati, 15.2.26
DELHI
Conversation with Peggy Mohan [https://asianreviewofbooks.com/father-tongue-motherland-the-birth-of-languages-in-south-asia-by-peggy-mohan/], The Bookstore, 9 January 2026
Book signing at Delhi Book Fair 11.2.26
CHENNAI
Conversation with Giridhar Pillarasetti, Writers Cafe, 6 January 2026 (p.m)
Talk at Centre for Interfaith Dialogue, Loyola College 6 January 2026 (a.m)
BANGALORE
Conversation with Bhumika Anand [https://www.bangalorewriters.com/meet_our_facilitators/], Atta Gallatta bookstore (recorded; on Instagram) 28.12.2025
Book signing at Champaca Bookstore 27.12.2025
KOCHI
Reading and talks with Helen Burns moderated by Di Ball, Lila Cafe 17 Dec 2025

Soul Climate, With the Tiger, Neem Dreams: my 3 India novels

January 28, 2026

Soul Climate is the third of my novels to have its first publication in India, set in India with Indian themes. Neem Dreams (2003) set in the early free trade era of the 1990s has four strangers connect over neem, age-old traditional source of medicine and household use; now multi-national corporations want to patent it. With the Tiger (2008) rewrites an earlier novel by Somerset Maugham to explore the Westerner’s search for meaning in India. The two earlier books are available on Lulu.com, and I am happy to send digital or paper copies to anyone on request.
I hope some time someone might critically consider these three novels together

Talking about Soul Climate in Bangalore 28.12.25

January 10, 2026

On 28 December I talked about Soul Climate with Bhumika Anand at the wonderful Atta Galatta bookshop. It was recorded; view here https://www.instagram.com/reel/DS0C4UsE4BB/?igsh=c3Rwd3ltc3g2ZDJh

New essay on Turn Left at Venus by H Boon and L Dale

December 20, 2025

Turn Left at Venus [see Books menu] was published in 2019. This remarkably perceptive and engaged essay about it was recently published. (As if the writers knew more about my novel than i did!)
Writing Travel as Difference in Inez Baranay’s Turn Left at Venus
Harper Boon and Leigh Dale
The Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia, Vol.14, No.2, 2023
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https://www.australianstudies.eu/?p=2289

Good essay on Ghosts Like Us by Bábara Arizti

December 20, 2025

Ghosts Like Us (see under Books in menu) was self-published in 2015. I’ve just been shown this essay about it. It’s wonderful when someone engages so thoroughly.
Inez Baranay’s Ghosts Like Us as a Stolperstein
Bárbara Arizti
Pages 327-340 | Published online: 04 Feb 2021

Cite this article https://doi.org/10.1080/10848770.2021.1878625
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10848770.2021.1878625

Soul Climate on Instagram

December 1, 2025

For those on insta https://www.instagram.com/reel/DRoeRmSEn4c/?igsh=d2lnZndlZ3JncXdj

Soul Climate page at Speaking Tiger

November 13, 2025

Publisher Speaking Tiger now has Soul Climate page here it is.
I’m looking forward to being in India from December and meeting readers (also non-readers)

“History” a chapter from Soul Climate published

July 4, 2025

One of three “meta” chapters in my forthcoming novel Soul Climate, “History” published by online portal Minor Literature[s]
https://minorliteratures.com/2025/07/03/soul-climate-inez-baranay/