Source: Hindustan Times
Professor Meenakshi Mukherjee, who passed away in Hyderabad on September 16, was one of the most innovative, inspiring and widely honoured professors of English of her generation in the country. Each one of her major books charted out a fresh field and flung open new doors of academic enquiry — The Twice-Born Fiction: [...]

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: The Hindu
Born and raised in New York City, it was love and a passion for publishing that prompted her decision to move to California. In January 1965, a month before her 24th birthday, she founded SAGE Publications Inc in New York with the encouragement of former colleague and mentor George D. McCune.
They chose the [...]

Source:  newkerala.com
Nishad Deshmukh of Nashik has been selected as the Indian finalist for Indian Young Publishing Entrepreneur 2009 Award of British Council, United Kindom.
The award is part of British Council’s worldwide work in promoting the creative industries, of which publishing is an integral part. The award has an association with Oxford Bookstores, a release here [...]

Source: The Hindu Literary Review
Writers Workshop is now a part of modern Indian literary history. Many writers who are ‘big’ names today got their first breaks with WW decades back. Well-known academic and literary critic Meenakshi Mukherjee takes a look at the evolution of an enterprise that has been kept going by the efforts of [...]

Source: Times of India
He spent a lifetime serving the written word
In a world where the cozy neighbourhood bookstore has been displaced by massive book chains peddling brownies alongside Brecht, Strand
Book Stall always stood in splendid isolation. Strand’s founder-owner T N Shanbhag died peacefully last Friday morning (27th Feb) at his Pedder Road residence. He was [...]