The annual “forum for content” organized by German Book Office, New Delhi, and the Frankfurt Book Fair, is back in the capital this year with a mix of roundtable discussions, training sessions, keynote presentations, and networking breaks. Globalocal will be held from 13–14 February 2014, just before the curtains rise on the New Delhi World Book Fair, which begins on 15th February.
After three successful editions held in Goa every year since 2011, Publishing Next will make its debut at the New Delhi World Book Fair (15–23 February 2014) this year, on 16th February.
Indira Chandrasekhar is Publisher and Managing Editor, Tulika Books, New Delhi. She began her publishing career with Macmillan India as a junior copy editor and worked for several years as a freelance editor, with brief stints at teaching in Bangalore and Delhi universities in the intervening years, before setting up Tulika Books in 1995. She has been associated with several well-known journals like Social Scientist, and Journal of Arts & Ideas. Indira is a founding partner of the Independent Pu
SAGE India is expanding its reach in the country. In an interaction with Vinutha Mallya, the managing director and CEO of Sage Publication India Vivek Mehra discusses the company's new moves
How does one choose seven cool publishers of India—from a sea of the subcontinent’s massive crop, where over 19,000 publishers publish books in the 24 official languages and others?When setting out to compile such a list, we wondered: if cool is a euphemism for bestsellers, or popularity, or youthful spirit, or just being different, then the category must be about something more. If ‘publisher’ is understood to be a glorified printing-distribution service-provider whose p
Vinutha Mallya, publishing pundit, charts the path of children's publishing in India since Independence.