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Book: ‘Travancore: The Footprints of Destiny’ – Autobiography: Uthradom Tirunal Marthanda Varma, the former king (as told to Uma Maheswari); Publisher: Konark Publishers; Price: Rs.2,000
In 1924, when Mahatma Gandhi asked young Chithira Tirunal, the 12-year-old prince of the erstwhile princely state of Travancore in Kerala, if he would remove untouchability and throw open the [...]

Source: Hindustan Times
In a unique revolution in the publishing world, two Indian books have made their debut in the virtual world. Converted into the e-book format, both these books can now be downloaded on the e-book reader, Kindle.
Published by Indian publishing house Wisdom Tree, Mantras: The Sacred Chants by Swami Veda Bharati and Yogini: Unfolding [...]

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: 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: 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: 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 [...]

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Harper-Collins India has come out with a new toddlers’ series aimed at developing reading skills for children aged between one and five years. The “Big Cat Read at Home” series, published in June, is divided into four levels.
While level one – called “First Steps” – strings a few simple words and pictures together for [...]

Source: The Hindu
One of Bengal’s most popular writers, Mani Shankar Mukherjee, is waiting to see how English speaking urban India reacts to “The Middleman”, the translated avatar of his most famous Bengali novel “Jana Aranya”.
“I am looking forward to seeing how young and English-speaking India reacts to it,” Sankar, as he is known in millions [...]

Source:  Hindustan Times
Close your eyes and feel the butterfly, the cheesecake, the orange, the doormat and other tangible things we encounter in our daily life. In an attempt to reach out to visually-impaired young children, Karadi Tales has decided to launch a tactile picture book that would help them “feel” what they’re reading. For their [...]