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Dec Jan 21

Portraits Of Power: Half a Century of Being at Ringside

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Author: N.K. Singh Publisher: Rupa (INR 595, 472PP) N.K. Singh has been a formidable civil servant, an empathetic politician, a keen chronicler of India’s socioeconomic history and the quintessential academic that academia never got. His…

Backstage : The Story behind India’s High Growth Years

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Author: Montek Singh Ahluwalia Publisher: Rupa (INR 595, 464PP) Tracing the spectacular trajectory of Ahluwalia’s life from its humble beginnings in Secunderabad to the corridors of power in New Delhi, this book is a classic insider’s…

“New paradigms of book selling emerged in Covid times”

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During Covid times, we worked on digitising the books into ebooks and audio books. We have also focused on supplying our books to readers internationally with print on demand companies. We hope the investment we have made on these new…

Irrfan Khan: The Man, The Dreamer, The Star

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Author: Aseem Chhabra Publisher: Rupa (INR 500, 224PP) Irrfan Khan is an intimate and meticulously researched account of this refreshingly unique and unconventional Indian icon. Drawn from personal interviews and told through many voices,…

Online selling: a boon for higher academic books

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Northern Book Centre, publishers of scholarly reference books and Paragon Books, its sister concern for distribution, have been making their mark for last two decades. Here’s more on this publisher.

The Meltdown: India Inc’s Biggest Implosions

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Authors: Dev Chatterjee and Sudha Pai Chatterjee Publisher: Rupa (INR 495) This is a behind-the-scenes look at the spectacular collapse of some of the biggest names in India Inc. The book reveals the real reasons behind the non-payment of…

The new face of entertainment:

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At Wattpad, there has been a massive influx in authors moving their work online since the start of the pandemic. From January through April, the number of new stories written on the platform grew by 151 percent. April also saw a 50 per cent…