Tag: publishers
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‘Today, guided publishing has taken a front seat’
A writer by passion and profession, Gurgaon-based Deepthy P. Nair is a publisher, having set up The Alcove Publishers back in 2017. A post graduate in mass communications, Deepthy hails from Kerala and is an avid reader, an athlete, a cinephile and music-lover. She currently heads the publishing unit of The Alcove and also works…
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‘There are many more opportunities for smaller and independent publishers today’
A believer in book culture over all else, Delhi-based Arpita Das has worked in publishing, with HarperCollins India, SAGE Publications and Oxford University Press and was a Director at Yodakin (an alternative bookstore in Hauz Khas Village, in Delhi). She is also the founder of Yoda Press and a senior writing instructor at Ashoka University.…
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Smita Khanna: The Publisher’s Perspective
With an MA in Women’s Studies, Singapore-based Smita is a literary agent with Jacaranda Literary Agency. She has earlier worked with the Times of India, Rupa Publications and Dorling Kindersely among others, and is an accomplished freelance writer and editor. We talk to her about her work as a literary agent, the business of publishing…
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Harshit Bhardwaj: “The author must come forward and become a brand”
A published author and a trained literary critic, Delhi-based Harshit is a brand marketing and content strategy expert who works with authors to help them promote their books. Harshit, who has a PG certificate in literary studies from the Liverpool Hope University in the UK, is also a publisher who wants his publishing house –…
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