“Victory in the Kitchen” by Annie Gray

07 08 , 2020 No Comments
Victory in the Kitchen is a biography of Winston Churchill’s cook, Georgina Landemere. She worked for the Churchills from 1940 to 1954, the longest serving
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Interview with Nandini Krishnan, translator of Perumal Murugan’s novel “Estuary”

07 08 , 2020 No Comments
Award-winning Tamil writer Perumal Murugan’s latest novel Estuary has been translated by Nandini Krishnan. Estuary is a curious book. Flat in its tone but the preoccupation
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Books on the business of publishing

02 08 , 2020 No Comments
For more than 500 years the aim of all publishing was to produce a physical product, and therefore design was concerned with the qualities of
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IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON THE INDIA BOOK CONSUMER: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

21 07 , 2020 No Comments
The COVID-19 crisis is an unprecedented time, suspending large parts of human normalcy and disrupting global economies, including India’s. The Indian publishing industry has experienced
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Vasily Grossman’s “Stalingrad”, translated by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler

08 07 , 2020 No Comments
Vasily Grossman”s Stalingrad is a prequel to Life And Fate. Life and Fate (Russian edition, Soviet Union, 1988) was translated from Russian into English in
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“Publishing Pangs”,Economic Times, Sunday Edition, 5 July 2020

05 07 , 2020 1 Comment
On 24 March 2020 invoking the Disaster Management Act (2005) the first phase of the lockdown to manage the Covid-19 pandemic was announced. “Disaster Management”
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Tim Parks, “Pen in Hand, reading, rereading and other mysteries”

04 07 , 2020 No Comments
Tim Park’s essays are always a pleasure to read. Short and always packed with information. Some of it familliar, some of it unexpected. Pen in
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Babysitters Club

04 07 , 2020 No Comments
The Babysitters Club, Season 1 was launched by Netflix on 3 July 2020. It is so well made! Slick and pure fun. Not mushy at
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In conversation with Tahar Ben Jelloun

04 07 , 2020 No Comments
On 30 June 2020, I was in conversation with the eminent and award-winning Franco-Moroccon author, Tahar Ben Jelloun. It was to celebrate the launch of
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Juan Pablo Villalobos’s “I Don’t Expect Anyone to Believe Me”

04 07 , 2020 No Comments
Juan Pablo Villalobos’s novel I Don’t Expect Anyone to Believe Me has a protagonist who shares the same name as the author. It has been
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