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Ira Pande on Jaipur Literary Festival & Indian Publishing Industry

By • Jan 20th, 2012 • Category: Books and Authors, Entertainment, Featured, India, New Delhi, People

The publishing landscape in India has changed quite a bit in the last few years and Indian and South Asian writers are on the radar of international publishing houses. What does the Indian publishing industry have to learn from these changes? One of the major change in Indian publishing according to Ira Pande is the [...]


In Conversation With Ira Pande Part-1

By • Jan 18th, 2012 • Category: Books and Authors, Featured, India, New Delhi, People
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Shivani and Manohar Shyam Joshi are two well-known Hindi writers, whose work until a few years ago was confined to Hindi readers. However in the last few years Shivani and Joshi’s books were translated in English by  Shivani’s daughter Ira Pande, who is an author herself. Shivani’s Diddi and Apradhini and Joshi’s T’Ta Professor were [...]


Dr. Amin Jaffer On The Splendors of Indian Maharajas

By • Nov 29th, 2011 • Category: Books and Authors, Diaspora, Featured, Hyderabad, India, London, Mumbai, New Delhi, People, Pune
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The splendors of an Indian maharaja’s (king) court is the stuff of legend that you may have heard or read in books. In Made For Maharajas A Design Diary of Princely India (Vendome Press, 2006) Dr. Amin Jaffer takes us on a splendid journey of the lifestyle of the rich and famous  Indian maharajas and maharanis [...]


Madhur Jaffrey On Taste Memories of Delhi

By • Jan 29th, 2010 • Category: Bollywood, Books and Authors, Diaspora, Entertainment, India, New Delhi, New York, People
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Madhur Jaffrey , a well-known actress & author of several cooks books & TV shows talks about her autobirograhy: Climbing The Mango Trees. In this autobiography she paints a wonderful picture of her childhood in India. Madhur grew up in a large “joint family,” in Delhi during the 1930s and 1940s. So in the book [...]


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