Daughter by Court Order

12 08 , 2020 No Comments
The Supreme Court of India has given a tremendous boost to the rights of women in families, holding that daughters cannot be deprived of their
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Interview with Gitanjali Kolanad

11 08 , 2020 No Comments
Gitanjali Kolanad was involved in the practice, performance, and teaching of bharata natyam for close to forty years. Her short story collection Sleeping with Movie
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Dom Moraes “Gone Away: An Indian Journal”

10 08 , 2020 No Comments
Much of Dom Moraes’s literary output is being made available by Speaking Tiger Books in collaboration with the writer’s literary estate whose executor is Sarayu Ahuja. As a
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On Sridhar Balan’s “Off the Shelf”

07 08 , 2020 No Comments
Sridhar Balan is an Indian publishing industry veteran who joined the sector when it was considered a cottage industry despite “big” firms like Oxford University
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“Victory in the Kitchen” by Annie Gray

07 08 , 2020 No Comments
Victory in the Kitchen is a biography of Winston Churchill’s cook, Georgina Landemere. She worked for the Churchills from 1940 to 1954, the longest serving
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Interview with Nandini Krishnan, translator of Perumal Murugan’s novel “Estuary”

07 08 , 2020 No Comments
Award-winning Tamil writer Perumal Murugan’s latest novel Estuary has been translated by Nandini Krishnan. Estuary is a curious book. Flat in its tone but the preoccupation
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Books on the business of publishing

02 08 , 2020 No Comments
For more than 500 years the aim of all publishing was to produce a physical product, and therefore design was concerned with the qualities of
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IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON THE INDIA BOOK CONSUMER: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

21 07 , 2020 No Comments
The COVID-19 crisis is an unprecedented time, suspending large parts of human normalcy and disrupting global economies, including India’s. The Indian publishing industry has experienced
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Vasily Grossman’s “Stalingrad”, translated by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler

08 07 , 2020 No Comments
Vasily Grossman”s Stalingrad is a prequel to Life And Fate. Life and Fate (Russian edition, Soviet Union, 1988) was translated from Russian into English in
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“Publishing Pangs”,Economic Times, Sunday Edition, 5 July 2020

05 07 , 2020 1 Comment
On 24 March 2020 invoking the Disaster Management Act (2005) the first phase of the lockdown to manage the Covid-19 pandemic was announced. “Disaster Management”
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