Essay aka निबंध
मुझे आज भी याद है, कक्षा पाँच की हिंदी की वो क्लास जिसमे उमाशंकर माटसाब ने कहा की चलो आज निबंध करेंगे, अपनी कॉ...
The Forgotten Masters
Walk into any second-hand bookstore in India, and you’ll find them, names you might have heard once in passing...
The Hidden Politics of Indian Literature
In Indian literature, words do more than tell stories sometimes, they decide which stories survive. One such w...
The Barefoot Storyteller
Vaikom Muhammad BasheerBasheer’s characters were drawn from society’s margins, gamblers, pickpockets, and pros...
The Curious Case of Indian Novels
Novels That Were Not Written for the Masses...Many exceptional Indian language books are critically acclaimed...
When Publishers Lose the Plot
Why Publishers Lose Good Writers (and Sometimes Their Sleep Too!)Here are the primary reasons:Royalties &...
The “Moving Out” Story
Why Do Writers Switch Publishers?Royalty & Transparency: Money matters, but so does knowing how much money...
The Nostalgia Trap in Indian Reading
Ever Wondered?:Indian readers still heavily gravitate toward older, classic Indian novelists. Why?Is it a matt...
शब्दों के शिल्पकार
जब भी मैं अपने पुस्तकालय में जाता हूँ, एक शेल्फ पर सलीके से रखी किताबों की कतार में मानसरोवर की मोटी जिल्द मुझ...
Swipe, Scroll, Read
The first time I came across a beautifully narrated Santali folktale on Instagram Reels, I paused.Not because...
Loved, But Legally Forgotten
A Write-up from a Legal Research Scholar Specialising in Intellectual Property & Indian Publishing. It's n...
The Hidden Cost of Free PDFs
In our country, storytelling is woven into the cultural fabric, and the written word holds immense power.Yet,...
Trending Books: What’s Trending & Why
Every time a new book lands on my desk, I wonder: Will this one catch fire?Not just commercially, but cultural...
Choose the Right Book Format
There’s a quiet joy in the rustle of a page, the glow of an e-ink screen on a late-night flight, or the satisf...
Between the Lines
Lost in Translation? Not Quite.I still remember the first time I sat with a 400-page Hindi manuscript, commiss...
Languages Need to Die?
Hi there. I would like to begin with a confession.I’m a PhD scholar (yes, willingly doing more studies after a...
Why Different Languages Share the Same Script
Have you ever wondered why Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, and Sanskrit all use the same script—Devanagari—even though...
More Than Just Pages: A Publisher’s Story
I remember the exact moment this story was born—not the one inside the book, but the one I’m about to tell you...
हिंदी कविता की डिजिटल विडंबना
सोशल मीडिया की दुनिया में जैसे ही कोई सेलेब्रिटी कविता की कुछ पंक्तियाँ पढ़ता है, माइक के सामने हल्की रोशनी, ध...
How Much "Pride" in Pride?
Every June, our social media feeds become a vibrant palette of rainbows.Brands change their logos, influencers...
Why Do We Always Ask for Discounts on Books?
Could this be hurting our "reading culture" more than helping?Imagine this.You walk into a bookstore. Your eye...
Fakir Mohan Senapati: The Unsung Architect of Odia Identity
Within the landscape of Indian literary giants, Fakir Mohan Senapati stands out as the pioneer of modern Odia...
Dalit Women in Literature: Writing the Triple Burden of Caste, Class, and Gender
In the vast landscape of Indian literature, Dalit women writers occupy a unique and powerful space—they are vo...
Languages vs. Dialects in India: The Struggle for Survival in a Changing Landscape
India has hundreds of languages and even more dialects, reflecting its astonishing linguistic diversity. For c...
State of the Regional Language Publishing Industry, How it’s Changing?
The publishing sector is dynamic and constantly changing, especially for the regional language publishing sect...
ಕನ್ನಡ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯದ ಕಲಾತ್ಮಕ ದೃಷ್ಟಿ: ಕವಿತೆ, ನಾಟಕ, ಕಾದಂಬರಿ
ಪರಿಚಯಕನ್ನಡ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯವು ಸಂಸ್ಕೃತಿ ಮತ್ತು ಇತಿಹಾಸದಲ್ಲಿ ಶ್ರೀಮಂತವಾಗಿದೆ, ಕಾವ್ಯ, ನಾಟಕ ಮತ್ತು ಕಾದಂಬರಿಗಳಂತಹ ವಿವಿಧ ಕಲಾ ಪ್ರಕಾರ...
Urban India and the Disappearing Dialects
As India rapidly urbanises, its younger generations are caught in a linguistic tug-of-war. On one side lies th...
Impact of Sound Changes on Indian Languages
Language, like a river, is a captivating entity, constantly flowing and evolving. Nowhere is this more mesmeri...