“The Cottage by the Highway and Other Essays on Publishing: 25 Years of Logos” Edited by Angus Phillips

18 02 , 2020 No Comments
The cheapening of information has been accompanied by the decline of copyright, the symbol of the writer’s ownership and instrument of his and the publisher’s
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“Fern Road” by Angshu Dasgupta

15 02 , 2020 No Comments
Angshu Dasgupta’s debut novel Fern Road is a coming-of-age novel set in 1980s’ Calcutta. It is a quietly paced, gently told story about Orko who
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“The Cliffhangers” by Sabin Iqbal

14 02 , 2020 No Comments
This is my land, this is my country. No one can come between us. Neither saffron nor green can come in our way. But, they
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“Radical Simplicity” by Ken Allen, CEO, DHL

13 02 , 2020 No Comments
Focus like a laser . . . . DHL, the courier company was founded in 1969. Before it, nothing like it existed. The three co-founders
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Women writers from North East India

11 02 , 2020 1 Comment
Writing from the north east of India has always had an interesting texture to it. It is distinct. Although the “north east” is clubbed as
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Hisham Matar’s ” A Month in Siena”

08 02 , 2020 No Comments
A picture changes as you look at it and changes in ways that are unexpected. I have discovered that a painting requires time. Now it
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Of biographies

08 02 , 2020 No Comments
Twenty-first century is being touted in publishing as the age of memoirs/biographies. Everyone has a story to tell. People always have. Now with technology making
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Deepa Anappara’s “Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line”

08 02 , 2020 No Comments
These two are always quarrelling like a husband and wife who have been married for too long. But they cann’t even get married when we
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Visiting International Publisher’s delegation, Sydney ( 29 April – 5 May 2019)

07 02 , 2020 No Comments

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Interview with Thomas Abraham, MD, Hachette India on publishing Enid Blyton’s books

20 12 , 2019 No Comments
For some time now I have been seeing some wonderful new editions of Enid Blyton’s books published by Hachette India. Sometimes collections of short stories
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