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Amazon KDP event in New Delhi, 30 Nov 2017

I moderated a panel discussion on self-publishing for Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing Author Academy. The panelists included Sanjeev Jha, Director, Kindle Content, India, successful fiction
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Judith Kerr

29 11 , 2017 No Comments

Since the Nazis came, we haven’t belonged in any place, only with refugees like ourselves. And we do what we can. I make soup and
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In conversation with Namita Gokhale on her “Lost in Time”, Times of India LitFest, New Delhi ( 26 Nov 2017)

28 11 , 2017 No Comments

Lost in Time: Ghatotkacha and the Game of Illusions is Namita Gokhale’s first young adult novel, published by Puffin India but not her first publication for
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Scholastic India Session on reading, Times of India LitFest, New Delhi ( 26 Nov 2017)

28 11 , 2017 No Comments

On Sunday 26 November 2017, I moderated the ‘SCHOLASTIC INDIA SESSION’, a conversation on young adult fiction with Shantanu Duttagupta, Scholastic India and Arti Sonthalia
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“Bollywood” Foreword by Amitabh Bachchan

11 11 , 2017 No Comments

Bollywood: The Films! The Songs! The Stars! (Definitive Visual Guide) has been published by DK India. It is
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Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski / Joseph Conrad

02 11 , 2017 No Comments

Heart of Darkness remains one of the most widely read novels in English; and the movie adaptation Apocalypse Now has brought Conrad’s story to still more. The very
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Jeet Thayil “The Book of Chocolate Saints”

31 10 , 2017 1 Comment

If this is a story about art then it is a story about God and the gifts he gives us. Also the gifts he takes
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Interview with Sugata Ghosh on OUP India’s Indian Language Publishing programme

24 10 , 2017 2 Comments

I interviewed Sugata Ghosh, Director, Global Academic Publishing, Oxford University Press on their newly launched Indian Languages Publishing Programme. Please tell me more newly launched Indian
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Inaugural list of Oxford Global Languages titles in Bengali and Hindi ( 2017)

24 10 , 2017 No Comments

I interviewed Sugata Ghose, Director, Global Academic Publishing, OUP India about the new Indian Languages Publishing Programme. According to him ” the new Indian Languages Publishing Programme was
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Diwali 2017!

14 10 , 2017 No Comments

In June 2017 while inaugurating the National Reading Mission programme the prime minister of India said that instead of presenting bouquets people should gift books.
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