Big Publishers Hit a Rough Patch
When profits and sales soared in the first half of 2021, the heads of the major publishing companies knew they would face some difficult comparisons...
Book publishing needs big govt push – NBDB
THE National Book Development Board (NBDB) urged the government to increase its support for the book publishing industry to improve literacy especially among youth by making more...
Twinkle Khanna Is Going Back To University
Twinkle Khanna has demonstrated again that there is no set age to learn and be a student. The actress Twinkle Khanna has recently enrolled at...
Indian Author Meena Kandasamy to Receive PEN Germany Prize
The feminist Indian poet and author, who writes in English, will receive the Hermann Kesten prize of the German chapter of the PEN International writers’...
Gurjit Kaur’s Medical Condition Cannot Be Published,’ Says Delhi High Court
A Division Bench of the Delhi High Court on Monday restrained the publisher and author of the book titled 'Will Power' from publishing any content related to...
How Kalachuvadu Kannan changed the face of Tamil book publishing
‘Tamil has a rich and hoary literary tradition spanning over two thousand years. The earliest literature in Tamil can be traced back to Sangam poetry,...
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,...
Karnataka govt spent Rs 37 lakh on Modi book launch event in Bengaluru
The Karnataka government spent Rs. 37 lakh to organize an event for the June 2022 publication of a book on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, according...
Renowned authors, Anita Desai, Salman Rushdie, Jhumpa Lahiri, Geetanjali Shree, Perumal Murugan and others, have expressed their hopes and concerns about the future of the world’s largest democracy in the project commissioned by PEN America
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi launched “Har Ghar Tiranga” campaign to encourage people to bring the Tiranga home and hoist it to celebrate 75 years...
