‘It was magic’: A writer visits a press to see her novel being printed, finds out how books are made

Janice Pariat documents her visit to Thompson Press.

Janice Pariat

· Oct 02, 2022 · 12:30 pm

Notes from a conference: What booksellers talk about when they talk about selling books

The Sharjah Booksellers’ Conference is the first of its kind on this scale at a global level. What did it do for the booksellers who participated?

Venkatesh M Swamy

· Jun 05, 2022 · 05:30 pm

Writer Vinod Kumar Shukla’s allegations remind us of the author versus publisher battle no one wants

What does it mean for publishing when a noted Hindi writer goes public with his accusations?

Venkatesh M Swamy

· Apr 24, 2022 · 12:30 pm

Meet Christian Weiss, German publishing’s champion of the literatures of India

Weiss’s company Draupadi Verlag has been at the vanguard of publishing books from Indian languages translated into German.

Rima Datta Holland

· Sep 18, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Ten years of Aleph: David Davidar on building a publishing company from scratch in India

Aleph Book Company was founded ten years ago, in 2011, as a new way to publish books.

David Davidar

· Jan 05, 2021 · 05:30 pm

As 2020 ends, a look back at the old bestseller that looked ahead: APJ Abdul Kalam’s ‘India 2020’

Publisher Krishan Chopra recounts the experience of giving birth to the book that set targets for 2020, written by a man who soon became President of India.

Krishan Chopra

· Dec 30, 2020 · 08:30 am

From Asia Publishing to Permanent Black: Ramachandra Guha pays a tribute to editors and publishers

The scholar and writer makes his nominations to the publishing hall of fame.

Ramachandra Guha

· Apr 18, 2020 · 08:30 am

How almost all of today’s English language publishers began in a small office in Delhi’s Nehru Place

Meet ‘the gang from Nehru Place’, as publisher Krishan Chopra, one of the group, puts it in his remembrance of those days.

Krishan Chopra

· Nov 02, 2019 · 08:30 am

Once upon a time in publishing: When it was the editors who were in control

Veteran editor Adil Tyabji rues how corporatisation and digitisation have eroded the role of the editor in book publishing.

Adil Tyabji

· Sep 20, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Would the writer have approved? The muddied ethics of posthumous publication

Works that a writer did not want published are often brought out after their death.

Andrew Biswell, The Conversation

· Sep 03, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Counterview: Urvashi Butalia’s rejoinder to AR Venkatachalapathy on women publishers and editors

‘To say that women do not measure up to male editors seems to me to be deeply problematic.’

Urvashi Butalia

· May 19, 2018 · 08:30 am

In English language publishing in India (at least), women have shattered the glass ceiling

What explains the near dominance of women in this field today?

AR Venkatachalapathy

· May 14, 2018 · 08:30 am