Many Tamil publishers had a narrow vision before the pandemic. Will the business model change now?

A ringside view from Kannan Sundaram, who has taken Tamil books into the global market.

Kannan Sundaram

· Yesterday · 12:30 pm

Comics were facing a squeeze in India. Has the pandemic opened the door to a revival?

TV and then social media may have ended the golden run up to the 1990s, but new books and new forms may reignite reader interest.

CG Salamander

· Jul 03, 2020 · 08:30 am

How this independent bookshop in Toronto weathered the lockdown has lessons for India’s bookstores

An interview with Anjula Gogia, events coordinator at Another Story Bookshop.

Kanishka Gupta

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Neelini Sarkar

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Meenakshi Alimchandani

· Jul 02, 2020 · 08:30 am

Is Covid-19 changing motherhood? Five books for new mothers to read in the time of the coronavirus

A reading list made by a writer-editor-mother.

Dharini Bhaskar

· Jul 01, 2020 · 05:30 pm

How the literary agent will be affected as post-pandemic publishing tightens its belts

Priya Doraswamy of Lotus Lane Literary lays surveys the landscape.

Priya Doraswamy

· Jun 30, 2020 · 08:30 am

Why my first visit to a book shop after the lockdown lifted did not turn out as I had expected

The shop was still an oasis of calm, but some things seemed surreal.

Divrina Dhingra

· Jun 29, 2020 · 08:30 am

How the name of a Gujarati language printer and publisher who died in the plague lives on in Mumbai

Jehangir B Karani’s business rose, fell and then rose again posthumously.

Murali Ranganathan

· Jun 28, 2020 · 08:30 am

Are there new ways for fiction-writers to make money during, and after, the pandemic?

Novelist Amitabha Bagchi suggests the introduction of new mediators and paying channels.

Amitabha Bagchi

· Jun 27, 2020 · 07:30 am

Will ‘coronavirus’ enter the vocabulary of Indian languages, as ‘plague’ did over 100 years ago?

How have the various languages in the country developed and accommodated words to name new epidemics?

Karthik Venkatesh

· Jun 26, 2020 · 08:30 am

The pandemic has made concentrated reading difficult. How are book reviewers dealing with this?

Four literary critics and editors talk about their work strategies.

Neha Bhatt

· Jun 25, 2020 · 08:30 am

The absurdity of literary festivals (in the third world) in time of the pandemic and after

Why the Dhaka Literary Festival had to be postponed as it was about to celebrate its 10th anniversary.

Ahsan Akbar

· Jun 24, 2020 · 07:30 am

The pandemic is showing us the opportunities that publishers have beyond the traditional book

A number of digital media, from podcasts to gaming, from education to entertainment, are opening up for book publishers to take advantage of.

Anushka Shetty

· Jun 23, 2020 · 08:30 am