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) .
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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 [...]

In an article in The Telegraph, Ravi Vyas discusses niche markets for books in India
All markets are fragmented. Just as there is place for multiple television channels, newspapers and magazines, there should also be room for up-market niche books of various kinds. Yet with returns running at higher levels than ever before, what are the [...]

Source: newkerala.com
Penguin Books-India Monday has launched its classic Hamish Hamilton imprint in the country with a collection of political essays, ‘Listening to Grasshoppers’ by Arundhati Roy and a novel, ‘The Wish Maker’ by Ali Sethi on contemporary Pakistan.
Hamish Hamilton will also publish Vikram Seth’s new novel ,’A Suitable Girl’, in 2013, a press statement issued [...]

Source:  The Telegraph, Calcutta
Orissa’s largest non-fiction work and first lexicon got a new lease of life with reprints appearing in the market for the first time in 70 years. Purnnachandra Ordia Bhashakosha, the monumental lexicon made up of seven volumes in 9,000-odd pages, has been republished by Orissa-based Lark Books and is priced at Rs [...]

Source: The Hindu
Well-known writer and senior civil servant Tarunkanti Mishra will be the recipient of the Kadambini Samman for 2009. The award, instituted by Oriya family magazine Kadambini, carries a citation, a memento and a cash award of Rs.50,000.
The award was conferred on Mishra during the 10th anniversary celebration of the publication at Jayadev Bhawan [...]

Source: Hindustan Times
The fascinating stories of the Indian epic Mahabharata – including the rivalry between cousins Pandavas and Kauravas, Lord Krishna and his mischievous exploits as a lad, and the Kurukshetra battle – have been re-told for children in a new book with lots of colourful illustrations.
The Puffin Mahabharata authored by Namita Gokhale published by [...]