Indian publishing

Anand Limaye of Indian Printing Works in Mumbai is a book printer and publisher. Every year during the festival season, he is "super-duper busy" with Diwali Anks, the bumper-size magazines published in Marathi during Diwali, featuring literary writings and ads in equal measure. "This year, instead of 19 Diwali Anks, we have printed 11," Limaye said.

With ‘many more tie-ups and collaborations between English and Indian-language publishers,' Taylor & Francis' Nitasha Devasar reports that India's book market today is in fast, positive evolution.

Don't let the wine-soaked book launches, literary awards and glitzy literature festivals fool you. While Indian literary fiction continues to throw up some interesting writers and books, the backbone of the publishing industry in India very much remains non-fiction and commercial fiction.  Read more

A generation of aspiring Indian authors, including myself, have grown up on the story of how Arundhati Roy was discovered by the UK-based literary agent David Godwin, and landed more than a million dollars as an advance.  Read more

Writing for The Indian Express, Ashutosh Bhardwaj reports that India's Culture Ministry has decided that artists and writers from across India will be rated, to "prevent a clique from dominating the official cultural space." The ratings will determine who gets sent to which cultural events.  Read more