Source: The Hindu
Puffin, an imprint of Penguin, the country’s leading English language publisher, has ventured into comic book publishing with its new offerings: comic book versions of two stories from Satyajit Ray’s famous Feluda mystery series and “Where’s Hanuman?”
“Comic book publishing is a fast-growing segment within the publishing industry. There are hardly any comic book [...]
Source: ciol.com
Mumbai city now has the honor to have one of a kind digital or e-library. The Rs 7 crore worth e-library is based in a large building located in the western suburb of Andheri East. Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan formally inaugurated the digital library here on Tuesday.
This state-of-the-art digital library offers free access [...]
Source: Indian Express
Prof Satyavrat Shastri was awarded the 42nd Jnanpith Award on Wednesday, the first time India’s highest literary honour has gone to a Sanskrit scholar. The award was handed to Shastri by the princess of Thailand Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, herself an eminent Sanskrit scholar and former student of Shastri.
Shastri has several literary achievements to [...]
In his blog, Mayank Author Soofi celebrates the charm of the second-hand bookstores of Paharganj (in Delhi) .
Read the whole blog here
Source: punemirror.in
Books are her comfort zone. So when software engineer Vani Mahesh, who worked with IBM for seven years in the US and now settled in Bangalore, decided to quit being a techie after stepping into motherhood, she decided to go back to her first love.
“It was at the same time that we decided to [...]
Source: Times of India
The cover says, The Time Machine alright but it is hardly the version H.G. Wells intended. Much of the science has been expunged from the science fiction. Most of the social commentary too is gone. The Time Traveller’s opening lines on time have been pared to what a speech bubble can accommodate. [...]
Source: The Hindu
With an aim to uphold and popularise the glorious literary creativeness of old Ravenshawvians, the Ravenshaw University in Cuttack is planning to build an archive and create a database of all old issues of its hostel magazines. West Hostel and East Hostel have been publishing its magazines – ‘Urmi’ and ‘Jagaran’ respectively without [...]
