Debut: Bone-Sculpture (Agha Shahid Ali) and It Isn’t Time That’s Passing (Ruskin Bond’s first volume of poetry).

Swayamvara (Jayanta Mahapatra) and The Lotus Leaves (Jai Nimbkar’s first book of short stories)

P. Lal becomes de-facto sole proprietor of WW, takes up Visiting Professor positions overseas to fund WW and makes the design innovation of handloom sari-bound volumes, later adding gold-embossed titles in his calligraphy. This design won first prize in the National Printing and Binding Awards, received in Delhi by Tulamiah Mohiuddin, WW’s binder. Debut books: Under Orion (Keki Daruwalla) and Tribute to Papa and Other Poems (Mamta Kalia). Asif Currimbhoy entrusts WW with the publication of all his plays, starting […]

The 600-page Modern Indian Poetry in English: An Anthology and a Credo published as an answer to Buddhadeva Bose’s anti-English campaign.

Debuts of Gauri Deshpande (Between Births) and G. S. Sharat Chandra (Bharata Natyam Dancer)

The Descendants (Kamala Das), Of Gods and Olives (Pritish Nandy), Poems (Suniti Namjoshi)

A. K. Ramanujan’s Fifteen Poems from a Classical Tamil Anthology and Lal’s The Bhagavad-Gita see WW embarking on English translations of Indian literature, one of its key domains eventually.

Adil Jussawalla’s debut, Land’s End

WW enters literary criticism with the pamphlet titled Indian Writing in English: A Symposium

Nissim Ezekiel’s The Unfinished Man published (not his first book, which had come out elsewhere)