Yearly Archives

2011

Follow me…everywhere

- on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. Social media marketing or promoting through online social media is the hottest trend in marketing today, embraced by both solo entrepreneurs and major corporations alike. Even publishers today are…

Public library: instrument of social betterment

Prof. PB Mangla, former dean and head - Department of Library and Information Science at the University of Delhi has recently been honoured with Tagore National Fellowship for Cultural Research awarded by the Ministry of Culture, Government…

Today, tomorrow and yesterday…biographies for all days

We all love to read autobiographies and biographies of rich and famous…and we have our favorites too! But if we explore this segment little more we will be taken aback by countless biographies and autobiographies on the shelves of…

Anand Giridharadas: Returning to the New India

-“Over the course of my lifetime, something had been changing in India to turn it into the kind of place where reinventions became possible.” What are Papa and I doing here?” Anand Giridharadas got this text message from his mother when his…

What’s good for children?

Reading is to mind what exercise is to body. No entertainment is so inexpensive as reading or any pleasure so lasting. It gives our souls a chance to luxuriate. Any time is reading time – no use of any equipment, any appointment of time or…

“Bring out the child in you to reach a child”

said Manorama Jafa, secretary general of Association of Writers and Illustrators for Children, who has been tirelessly running the association for the last 31 years…and is still continuing to do so with the same zest. A prolific writer and…

“Catch them young”

says Anupama Jauhry, Head, TERI Press, an upcoming publisher in the children books segment, backed with the powerful research team of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), in a conversation with Varsha Verma of AABP. Despite the…

News & Reviews

Kabuliwala Tagore Classics Publisher: BPI India Pvt Ltd (Pp 16, ISBN 978-81-4972061, Rs 50) The book is a part of ‘Tagore Classics’ series, written by Nobel Prize laureate Rabindranath Tagore. It is a famous story which has been told many…

Books and Beyond…

Cultural curry at Village Hauz Khas For some, Hauz Khas Village, situated in south of New Delhi, is a place with numerous art galleries, upscale boutiques and finest restaurants amidst architectural heritage of medieval history of Delhi…

A visit at Yodakin…

As I moved in between the lanes and by lanes of Hauz Khas, I found another book store in the vicinity of nature. A huge water body with a man-made fountain and endless greenery in front of me...but I chose to step inside Yodakin - an…