Golden Age Bombay: A Gallery Affair To Celebrate Alka Joshi's Latest Novel

Join us for a dazzling 1930s Bombay-themed art gallery opening, featuring internationally best-selling author and CCA alum Alka Joshi. Art, music, immersive theater, and storytelling will bring both the era and Alka Joshi's latest novel, Six Days in Bombay, to life.

Savor chai and sweets, soak up the vibrant atmosphere, and mingle with one of CCA's most stellar alumni as we celebrate the power of art and storytelling.

Alka Joshi is the internationally bestselling author of the Jaipur Trilogy: The Henna Artist, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur and The Perfumist of Paris. Her debut novel, The Henna Artist, immediately became a New York Times Bestseller, a Reese Witherspoon Bookclub Pick, an LA Times Bestseller, a Toronto Star Bestseller, an Indie Bookstores Bestseller, a Cosmopolitan Best Audiobook, and an Amazon and Goodreads favorite. It was also longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, has been translated into 29 languages, and is currently in development as an episodic series. In 2023, Forbes selected Alka as one of 50 Women Over 50 who are shattering age and gender norms. Alka was born in India and came to the U.S. with her family at the age of nine. She has a BA from Stanford University and an MFA from California College of Arts. Her fourth release (4/15/2025), Six Days in Bombay, is a sweeping travelogue spanning a young woman's journey from 1937 India to a turbulent Europe as she comes into her own. It's Alka's first standalone novel, and will be followed by a fifth in 2026.

Alka will be joined in conversation by MFA Writing chair, Jasmin Darznik

Host or Publisher California College of the Arts