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A suitably South Asian romance
Lahore :: Pakistan | 3 months ago
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The new e-publishing concern, Indirom, has been set up by two women, one from Pakistan and the other from India. They claim that their stories will "provide romance for the south Asian soul". But with the Mills and Boons romantic fiction franchise
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Peter Carson
Cambridge :: United Kingdom | 4 months ago
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When I came to Britain from the US to head Penguin in 1978, the company was failing and dysfunctional, unsuccessful in economic terms and not in tune with what the public wanted to read. It soon became clear to me that the small Allen Lane hardcover
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No sense of change
Mumbai :: India | 5 months ago
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In his introduction to The Oxford India Anthology of Twelve Modern Indian Poets (1997), Arvind Krishna Mehrotra wrote: To edit an anthology is an opportunity to revise the literary map, bring neglected works back in circulation, and shift the
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Indian ebook stores vie for reader attention
Mumbai :: India | 5 months ago
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The debate over whether ebooks can ever be as good as paper books seems to be dying down. In markets like the US and UK, online retail giant Amazon sells more ebooks than paper ones. The story may be repeated in India with tablets flying off the
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Food as entitlement
Mumbai :: India | 5 months ago
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Reinventing the discourse around human rights today presents new opportunities to advance the possibilities of justice. An excerpt from Harsh Mander's just released book Ash in the Belly: India's Unfinished Battle against Hunger. There are many ways
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'We won't become a great country'
Cairo :: Egypt | 6 months ago
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Anna Hazare, Jantar Mantar and Tahrir Square Last updated on: December 6, 2012 12:50 IST Share this Ask Users Write a Comment Print this article An excerpt from Gurcharan Das's new book, India Grows at Night on how he learned something vital about
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'Indian English has an identity of its own'
New Delhi :: India | 6 months ago
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The Teller of Tales," his first work of fiction. "We in our own time had a British influence...It is acquiring a regional colour -- growing in its own way in South India; in the eastern part of the country; and in northern India... And each of these
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Growing a new India
New Delhi :: India | 6 months ago
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Gurcharan Das seen participating in an conversation during the launch of his book"India Grows at Night", A libreal Case for a Strong State", in Delhi. .Photo:Sushil Kumar Verma The country's youth need to be more involved with their neighbourhood
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Barista ties up with Penguin Books
Mumbai :: India | 7 months ago
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Barista Lavazza, the pioneer of caf culture in India, on Wednesday announced its strategic alliance with Penguin Books India, Indias largest English language publisher. This strategic association between Indias leading caf and book publisher will
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Bertelsmann's pickup of Penguin shows the poor state of British publishing | Ian Jack
Warburg :: Germany | 7 months ago
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Readers rarely take much notice of imprints, but Penguin is different, writes Ian Jack. EPA Letters arrive by email from two publishers, promising me that things can only get better. Andrew Phillips, the chief executive of Penguin India , writes to
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