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Ye Calliope, Erato and Polyhymnia

Author: Shilpa Vinay Viswanath Pages: 58 Year of Publication: 2010 Price: HB Rs 150, FB Rs 100 ISBN: HB 978-81-8157-965-2 (9788181579652) FB 978-81-8157-966-9 (9788181579669) About the Author Shilpa Vinay Viswanath graduated in Economics from the London School of Economics. She has published three other volumes of poetry with Writers Workshop, India: Pause and G for God, D for Distraction in 2009 and Alias Da-Ugh-Ter in 2010. This was her third collection. Teaser M-i-d-d-l-e riddle I was the middle child in […]

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Yours Affectionately

Description: Author: Amrita V. Nair Pages: 46 Year of Publication: 2009 Price: HB Rs 100, FB Rs 80 ISBN: HB 978-81-8157-887-7 (9788181578877) FB 978-81-8157-888-4 (9788181578884) About the Author: Amrita V. Nair was born on 20 August 1989, in Kerala. She started writing poetry at the age of 6. She also writes fiction and has won prizes at the state and national levels for her essays. Apart from writing, she enjoys swimming and music — she is learning to play the […]

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Light through a Labyrinth

Author: Vivek Mishra (Translated by Amrita Bera) Pages: 106 Year of Publication: 2009 Price: HB Rs 150, FB Rs 100 ISBN: HB 978-81-8157-885-3 (9788181578853) FB 978-81-8157-886-0 (9788181578860) About the Author Vivek Mishra was born in Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh and the contrasting experiences of living in both a semi-urban town and a metropolitan city have greatly influenced his poems. His poems and ghazals address a wide range of issues such as poverty, the impact of globalization on smaller towns, ecological destruction […]

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Nonsense Rhymes

Author: Sukumar Ray (Translated by Satyajit Ray) Pages: 28 Year of Publication: First published 1970, Second edition 1997, Third edition 2009. Price: HB Rs 80, FB Rs 60 ISBN: HB 978-81-8157-825-9 (9788181578259) FB 978-81-8157-826-6 (9788181578266) About the Book Satyajit Ray’s translation of poems from his father’s renowned Bengali collection, Abol Tabol.

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The White Lotus

Author: Jaya Varma Pages: 416 Year of Publication: 2011 Price: HB Rs 500, FB Rs 400 ISBN: HB 978-93-5045-000-0 (9789350450000) FB 978-81-5045-001-7 (9788150450017) About the Author Jaya Varma (nee Bhattacharyya) was born in 1945 in Calcutta. She completed her graduation in Philosophy (Honours) from Calcutta University in 1965. She moved to Chandigarh in 1966 and lived there for the rest of her life except between 1987 and 1992, when she lived in Pune. She was trained in Rabindrasangeet and classical […]

The Contribution of Writers Workshop

Ananda Lal and Rubana Huq In 1987, the Institute of Book Publishing in New Delhi established the Indian Publishing Hall of Fame, “to acknowledge, acclaim and honour those who have made outstanding contributions to the promotion of publishing and the cause of book culture in India.”[i] The inaugural list of inductees comprised, posthumously, Jawaharlal Nehru, K. M. Munshi (founder of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan), D. R. Mankekar (who authored many books of political journalism), and M. N. Rao (promoter of […]

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Translation of The Anushasana Parva completed! Writers Workshop Poet Wins the Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize Writers Workshop Poet Wins the Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize Joint Runners-Up at the Muse India Translation Awards, 2017 Surajit Borooah’s Translated Poems Adjudged Joint Runners-Up at the Muse India Translation Awards, 2017 Dipika Mukherjee on Writers Workshop: Dipika Mukherjee on Writers Workshop Reshma Aquil’s poetry: Reshma Aquil’s poetry An article on Professor P. Lal and Writers Workshop in The Telegraph, India: An article on Professor […]

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Cherie: The Cocker Spaniel

Author: Rashmi Oberoi Pages: 32 Year of Publication: 2009 Price: HB Rs 150, FB Rs 100 ISBN: HB 978-81-8157-943-0 (9788181579430) FB 978-81-8157-944-7 (9788181579447) About the Author Rashmi Oberoi is based in Gurgaon, where she lives with her two children. She holds an M.A. in English and a B.Ed. She has worked in the corporate sector in human resources and as a freelance writer, in the capacity of which she has written middles and articles for newspapers and magazines respectively. Rashmi […]

An image of the completed set of the Mahabharata Parvas.

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The Mahabharata of Vyasa

The P. Lal transcreation of the complete epic text in 19 volumes comprising the 18 parvas of the maha-kavya – a limited hardback edition. The sloka-by-sloka transcreation of Vyasa’s epic by P. Lal was completely revised for his reading sessions of the entire maha-kavya in Kolkata. The weekly Sunday readings began in 1999 and continued till 2009. After he passed away in 2010, we requested Dr Pradip Bhattacharya to complete the transcreation project P. Lal had started. The following volumes […]

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Different Millennia: Three Plays

Author: Vithal Rajan Pages: 260 Year of Publication: 2009 Price: HB Rs 300, FB Rs 200 ISBN: HB 978-81-8157-903-4 (9788181579034) FB 978-81-8157-904-1 (9788181579041) About the Author Vithal Rajan holds a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics. He emigrated from India to Canada in the mid 1960’s and he worked for several years as Information Officer for Canadian Industries Ltd. (I.C.I.) in Montreal. Following the suspension of civil liberties in India by former Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, Dr. Rajan felt […]

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