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June 2016

The Pocket Doctor: Medical Tips for Common illnesses

Author: Dr. Anila Chandy Publisher: Viva Books, (Pp 140, ISBN 978-81-309-1261-5, Rs 295) Written by a practicing physician Dr Anila Chandy of Apollo Group of Hospitals and Motherhood Hospitals, Chennai, it is a this practical guide to…

A Campaign Called ‘Victory India’

Author: Col B Dalvi Publisher: Pentagon Press, New Delhi, ISBN: 9788182748781, Price: 995 Being the third and the final episode of the Victory India series, A Campaign Called ‘Victory India’ is yet a culmination of painstaking efforts of…

Neurosutra

Author: Abhijit Naskar Publisher: Pigeon Books India (an imprint of GBD Books) ISBN: 9789384401672 Price: 599This book is all about scientific findings on human inner self. But Neurosutra, or literally a philosophy of neuroscience, is not a…

JUMPSTART’16 goes to school

JUMPSTART, the annual congress of children’s content creators, is a flagship project led by the German Book Office (GBO), New Delhi, which is the South Asia node of the Frankfurt Book Fair. Having started in 2009, as a series of…

Nehru Centre Library: changing pace with time

Mumbai-based Nehru Centre Library has recently been revamped to offer better services to the readers. Here, Arati Desai, librarian, shares more about the library in conversation with Varsha Verma. Libraries in general play an important role…

Art of management

Satisfy the emotion to leave a bigger impact on the consumer’ RAJ Kumar BANIWAL, manager - marketing CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Raj Kumar Baniwal joined Cambridge University Press in July 2015 as managermarketing. He has more than 8 years…

GenX in Publishing!

With innovative ideas, new perspectives and fresh energy, secondgeneration professionals join the family business with a novel approach. Backed by precious experiences from their elders, these breed of publishers are more dynamic and eager…

Peace initiatives in children’s stories

Thousands of years ago the Panchatantra stories projected men’s quest for self-realisation, to win friends and influence people in order to secure his own happiness and well-being – all focussed towards a stable, orderly society. Books…

News & Review

Vikram & Betaal: The Storyteller Series Sutradhar: Nidhi Kundra Publisher: Edu Hub Publishing, New Delhi (ISBN: 978-93-859-9405-0) Indian mythology boasts of a number of evergreen stories, which have been told and retold many times and…