Monthly Archives

October 2016

Building blocks of education

Stories are a great medium for learning and when children read books in their mother tongue, that makes them read better and therefore make more sense of their education. Manisha Chaudhry, editorial head, Pratham Books, talks about the…

“Buy a book that brings out the child in you”

Advises Shashank Sardana of DS Publishers India. Books are children’s best friends, but it is very important to find the right friend (book) for your child. What makes a good children book and how are Indian children books placed with…

News & Review

Interactive session on children’s content! An interactive session with an eminent author Dr Ken Spillman, from Australia and well-known illustrator Suvidha Mistry from India, was organised by National Centre for Children’s Literature…

“Education is embedded in our value system”

says Sivaramakrishnan V (Siva), managing director of Oxford University Press (OUP) in conversation with Varsha Verma. “A developed education society is one where the role of teacher and teaching profession is aspirational. In India,…

Cover to cover: Anatomy of the book

What is a book and what goes in making of a book? In this series of articles, GS Jolly will explain the attributes of a book and the insight into its production. This issue, he talks about the various parts of a book cover. A book’s cover…

Literary agents: making words immortal!

It is very important for an author to find the right publisher for his book. But, the tedious process of facing numerous rejections before finding the one who is ready to publish his book, often baffles him. Here, literary agents come into…

The fine art of Leadership

John C Maxwel, rightly said, “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” Here, AABP brings views on what leadership means in the publishing industry. Harish Doraiswamy is a B Tech from IIT Chennai and has…

A glimpse of the Meerut publishing industry

What Daryaganj is to the publishing industry in Delhi/NCR, Meerut is to the publishing industry in Uttar Pradesh. Though Meerut is more popular for textbook printing, pulp fiction and children books are other two segments that fuel the…