INKED IN INDIA: Fountain Pens and a Story of Make and Unmake by Bibek Debroy, Sovan Roy (Author)
About The Book In the early 1900s, a Bengali doctor created the first Indian fountain pen in Varanasi. Despite this early start, foreign-made pens dominate...
2023 Kolkata Book Fair To Be On Pre-Covid Scale
The 46th International Kolkata Book Fair, scheduled to be held in January next year, will be on the pre-COVID scale if cases do not rise...
Mini JLFs sprouting across India. Lit fest boom in Nagpur, Ranchi, Kanpur, Indore, Kokrajhar
Jaipur Literature Festival has been called the Mahakumbh of literature, the greatest literary show on Earth, a big fat Punjabi wedding and a commercial networking event....
Jaipur Literature Festival Comes Back To New York City, US
The sixth edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival New York will return this year to represent the rich literary heritage of South Asia in the United States. Globally renowned scholars, thinkers,...
Mohan Yadav opens Gwalior International Literature Festival
Four-day Gwalior International Literature Festival was on Saturday inaugurated by Madhya Pradesh Higher Education Minister Mohan Yadav. The inauguration function of the festival, being organized...
The Unheard Word: A Dalit Publishing Company’s Struggle For Survival In Maharashtra
No one dreams of becoming a publisher. One is brought into it. So, what brings a Dalit person to English-language publishing? A first-hand experience of...
Poetry publishers at Gurugram lit fest
Besides the launch of recent poetry volumes published by Hawakal and Red River, the event also saw both established and young poets from all over...
Scenes from My Life, A MEMOIR, By Michael K. Williams and Jon Sternfeld
ABOUT SCENES FROM MY LIFE A moving, unflinching memoir of hard-won success, struggles with addiction, and a lifelong mission to give back—from the late iconic actor...
Publication Board, Assam to host three new book fairs
From 2022, the Assam Publication Board (PBA) would hold four book fairs in various districts of the state. In an interview with The Sentinel, APB...
Nobel prize-winning poet Louise Gluck’s first fiction work to be published in UK
The first work of fiction by American poet and Nobel laureate Louise Glück is to be published in the UK later this year. Marigold and...
