Source: Hindustan Times
Should the family of a thief be punished for a crime that he committed? Raising questions on the “extra-judicial killings” of family members of a militant group of Assam, Secret Killings, a compilation based on the reports of an enquiry commission, was released in the capital Thursday.
Compiled by three journalists who had written [...]
Source: The Times of India
Publishing history in India was made this week when popular historian Ramachandra Guha clinched close to a Rs 1 crore deal with Penguin India for a series of six books-the definitive Gandhi biography, an anthology of 12 thinkers who shaped modern India, and a collection of his previously published essays.
The deal [...]
Source: The Telegraph (Calcutta)
Ravi Vyas examines the practice of “returns” so prevalent in the book industry in India and elsewhere
First, the fundamentals of the publisher-trade relationship in India. Four factors define the terms of trade: prices, discounts, credit terms and ‘returns’. The first three apply to the retail trade for any commodity; the last is [...]
Source: PTI
Noted Bengali writer Mahashweta Devi and acclaimed Indian-origin novelist V S Naipaul have been named in the short-list for the 60,000 pounds Man Booker International Prize, which recognises the lifetime achievement of an author.
The Man Booker International Prize differs from the annual Man Booker Prize for Fiction in that it highlights one writer’s continued [...]
Despite a growing domestic market and increasing exports, Indian book publishers are concerned over the ‘invasion’ by their foreign counterparts and have demanded that the government scrap the foreign direct investment (FDI) in the industry.
‘We demand the government scrap the FDI in the business of publishing to give a breathing space to Indian publishers,’ Anand [...]
Gandhi’s Conscience Keeper: C. Rajagopalachari And Indian Politics
By Vasanthi Srinivasan
Hailed by Mahatma Gandhi as his conscience keeper, Chakravarti Rajagopalachari (1878–1972; better known as Rajaji) epitomized the practical wisdom, religious tolerance, and statesmanship that Gandhi brought to the nationalist movement.
Vasanthi Srinivasan presents Rajaji’s vision as that of a theocentric liberal. Examining his political ideas and actions [...]
Source: The Hindu
C.S. Yogananda, Professor and Head of the Department of Mathematics at the Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering has digitalised Saakshi – a quarterly literary magazine brought out by Kannada’s finest poets, the pioneer of the modernist movement, Gopalakrishna Adiga for nearly 25 years.
The digital version of this magazine which launched many new Kannada writers [...]
Source: expressbuzz.com
“These buildings have a story to tell,” reads one of the chapters of Rani Sharma’s new book, Deodis of Hyderabad. Recollecting more than 200 years of history between two covers, Sharmas book attempts to chronicle, evaluate and preserve the vestiges of the royal retreats of the Nizami era.
At a bookreading at the Administrative Staff [...]
Source: Daily News and Analysis (DNA)
If these engineering students have their way, textbooks and guides will soon carry advertisements. Inspired by the Entrepreneurship Summit (E-summit) hosted by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, two final year engineering students have come up with the idea to reduce the cost of expensive course books.
Naraesh Menghrajani and [...]
Source: Hindustan Times
Nearly 60 writers, poets and scholars from eight south Asian countries will debate and discuss terrorism, ethnic angst and popular culture at the SAARC Festival of Literature in Agra March 12-16.
Thirteen writers from Pakistan and eight from Afghanistan will attend the festival, organised by Foundation of SAARC Writers and Literature (FOSWAL).
“The focus this [...]
