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The Writers Workshop Team Ananda Lal directs Writers Workshop since 2010, succeeding his father P. Lal. He retired as a Professor of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He served as the Head of that Department and has a long and distinguished career in English literary studies in India, and as a translator and editor. His books include Rabindranath Tagore: Three Plays (1987, 2001), The Oxford Companion to Indian Theatre (2004), Indian Drama in English: The Beginnings (2019), Utpal Dutt: Barricade (2021) and Songs of Tagore: Poetry and Melody (2023). He has lectured […]

Glory be to Mahakala. It is now 2010. I am four score and two. Time for some home truths. Because writers workshop  has close to 3500 separate titles in its checklist (published over 50 years 1958-2008), there is a misconception that it is an Indian publishing leviathan. (No other publisher in India has that many titles on its list.) The truth is much less awesome. writers workshop has no office; it operates from my residence, from the living-room and a […]