The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) is organizing a stakeholders’ conference on ecological and sustainable publishing practices in New Delhi on 14 March 2009. The event titled Pathways to Green Publishing: industry perspectives on the economics of ecological publishing will attempt to bring together all the stakeholders involved in the process of publishing – [...]
Source: The Hindu
Bhubaneswar-based popular literary publishing house ‘Time Pass’ founded by young and dynamic writer-publisher Saroj Bal has announced its annual literary awards for Oriya language and literature for the year 2009.
Short-story writer Satyapriya Mahalik will be the recipient of the ‘Time Pass Booker Prize’ for his unpublished work ‘Sarinathiba eka Lokakatha’ (an unfinished folk-tale) [...]
Source: http://www.newspostonline.com
The London Book Fair, which is focussing on India as an emerging market and literary hub this year, will take a look at not only English writing from the south Asian nation but also other vernacular languages, said Alistair Burtenshaw, group exhibition director of the event.
The April 20-22 fair will also introduce new Indian writers [...]
Source: The Economic Times
Dheeraj Arora is a 27-year old trainer at the New Delhi-based Hero Mindmine, a provider of training and development services for business process outsourcing companies. In the past three months, he has been frequenting a popular bookstore in the Capital scouring for books on self-improvement, motivation and career counselling, part of a [...]
All art forms confront the onslaughts of prying eyes and illegal predators to lift bits and pieces from here and there and piece it with something, somewhere else. Barely a fortnight after the 33rd International Kolkata Book Fair, the cultural wing of the Publishers & Booksellers’ Guild of world’s one of the largest book fests [...]
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The Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore occupies a very special place in the academic landscape of India. Famous, and justly so, it is one of those institutions in our country that one can be proud of, one can rely upon for a certain basic standard and quality, and one that we can hold [...]
Source: http://bookwiseindia.blogspot.com
More than 45 leading Indian writers, translators, critics, academics and industry professionals will be coming to the London Book Fair, to take part in a varied programme of events based on themes of cultural and linguistic diversity, designed to enable better market understanding through contemporary literature between India and the UK. This is the first [...]