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Publishing in Indian languages INDRA NATH CHOUDHURI 2 Editorial Indian Fiction K. SATCHIDANANDAN 6
I ndian authors have, of late, become quite the rage internationally. Book publishing in humanities
“ Iamagreat,fantasticaccident of being the right person at the right place
at the right time.That is the description of my success. .. ” Vikram Seth and Salman Rushdie, Shashi Tharoor and Amitav Ghosh, and social sciences Shobhaa De and Jhumpa Lahiri. The list has been impressively expanding. SRIDHAR BALAN 11 It is important to recall that these are all authors whose original writing is in the English language. Several years ago, in 1912 in fact, a 51 year old relatively unknown writer decided to try his hand at translating some of his own work while on a trip to London; it was his way of passing time. India He scribbled his translations in a notebook. Legend has it that one day Perspectives SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2008 while alighting from the London subway, he left his briefcase behind VOL 22, NO. 5 which had the notebook. It was discovered and r eturned by a good and A Writer and His Workshop kind soul. A few months later, the scribbling was seen by W.B. Yeats, Editor Amit Dasgupta TIRTHANKAR GHOSH 16 who was mesmerized. The rest, as we know, is history. In 1913, Assistant Editor the writer was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature; his name was Neelu Rohra Bollywoodie Books! Rabindranath Tagore. Consulting Editor SURESH KOHLI 18 Newsline Publications Pvt. Ltd. It is argued that Tagore might never have won the prize and thus, the C-15, Sector 6, Noida-201301 international recognition if his writings were not available in the English
language. The key, thus, lay in translations and in the availability of India Perspectives is published every month in English, French, German, Spanish, Indian writing in the English language. Without translations, a huge Portuguese, Russian, Sinhala, Bahasa wealth of Indian writing remains denied to the world. This is true of Indonesia, Persian, Arabic, Pashto, Urdu, Hindi, Bengali and Tamil. Views expressed in other international languages as well. Imagine if we were denied the the articles are those of the contributors and not necessarily of India Perspectives. translations of writings by Hermann Hesse and Pablo Neruda, Gabriel All original articles, other than reprints published in India Perspectives, may be Marquez and Paolo Coelho! freely reproduced with acknowledgement. Editorial contributions and letters should be A Concise History of Indian book publishing has come a long way over the last sixty years. addressed to the Editor, India Perspectives, Illustrated Books 140 ‘A’ Wing, Shastri Bhawan, Today, over 90,000 books in English and in Indian languages ar e New Delhi-110001. KISHORE SINGH 21 Telephones: +91-11-23389471, 23388873, published annually in India of which only around twenty per cent Fax: +91-11-23385549, E-mail: j [email protected], represent English language book publishing. In other words, what is Website: http://www.meaindia.nic.in available to the public as ‘contemporary Indian writing’ is, thus, only For obtaining a copy of India Perspectives, please contact the Indian Diplomatic Mission a mere fraction of what is produced. in your country. This edition is published for the This Special Issue offers a glimpse into the world of I ndian book publishing. Ministry of External Affairs, New Delhi, by Parbati Sen Vyas, Special Secretary, Public Diplomacy Division. Designed and printed by Ajanta Offset & Packagings Ltd., Delhi-110052. Magic in Amit Dasgupta Words and Pictures New Delhi, September 2008 ANANT PAI 26
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Publishing in Indian languages
INDRA NATH CHOUDHURI
The Indian book publishing industry has seen rapid and steady growth. Even so, there is abundant scope to improve language publications which need a more professional approach.
ook publishing in Indian languages has assumed great importance in view of the emphasis that has been laid on Bliteracy and the tremendous explosion of knowledge that we witness today all over the world. The growth of the book industry is stupendous and according to a computed figure 82,537 books were published in all the Indian languages, including English, in the year 25 per cent of the total publishing adult but also to 2005. The job was actively performed by 16,000 publishers. According done in all the languages. well as illiterates too who to this computed figure, English language publishing that is confined English follows with 20 per cent. read books by themselves but to a few metropolitan cities, actually represents only about 20 per Next in line is a group of six buy books to get these read out cent of the total Indian book publishing. Even then, it is a belief – a languages: Bengali, Malayalam, to them. mistaken one – that only English language publishing represents Marathi, Gujarati, Tamil and Indian publishing. This hinders unwittingly a proper assessment of Telugu. After that the other five Even with a literacy figure of Indian language publishing in 22 Indian languages recognized by the languages – if we club them on 65 per cent, India has a huge Constitution of India. the basis of the number of books sea of humanity whose hunger for reading material cannot be Looking at the language-wise figures for the year 2005, we realize published – would be Assamese, adequately satisfied that the largest numbers of books are published in Hindi, i.e. about Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi and Urdu. Following this group are annually. To augment this deficit, four languages: Kashmiri, Dogri, Indian publishers have to come Konkani and Sindhi. The last is to the fore and Sanskrit. in Indian languages 80 per cent of the demand for Again, if we take a look at books is in Indian languages. the readership figures, it is A book-reading nation is an fascinating: there are more than enlightened one and such a 3306 universities, numerous society is sure to colleges and schools and lakhs of honour for itself in the private centres which have never nations. In fact, to been enumerated. Add to that to Indian Independence through the adult population of millions education for all, it is necessary of people who read and buy all to encourage publishing in Indian sorts of books. Indian publishers languages. provide books not only for the organized educational sector and The promotion of the to book-lovers both young and habit of good books is an
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essential part connected with grow in terms of title output will be in great demand. In fact, in mind. According to a rough book production. The London and business returns. Today, social engineering is the topic of estimate, approximately 10,000 Declaration ‘Towards a reading Indian publishing is one of the day, apart from indology and titles for children are published society’, adopted at the UNESCO the largest in the world and spiritual continuity. every year in English and all the World Congress on Books in 1982 can be counted among the Indian languages put together. points out, “We seek a world first seven publishing nations. The prospects of paperbacks This number is inadequate in which the ability to read and Professionalism, however, has and e-books are also increasing considering there are over one the will and desire to enjoy the not yet entered the publishing everyday. In the last two decades, million primary schools in India. fruits of reading are more widely industry. The producer-consumer the communication revolution The need for professionalism sought by all societies. We seek a ratio is erratic; no concentrated has changed the perspective and organized activity in the world in which there are indeed research is done to know what a and lifestyle of people in the language publication is the most books for all, but one also in reader wants. The industry rests developed as well developing essential prerequisite. A weak which all can read and all accept on public expenditure and the countries. But coping with the link in the book publishing books and reading as a desirable demand from individual buyers information revolution has chain in Indian languages is the part of daily life. We look forward is small. However, the Kolkata created more problems rather editing of manuscripts and proper not merely to a literate world but Book Fair that has three million than solving them particularly in expertise in the production field towards a universal society”. The book lovers year after year with the field of education, children’s and marketing. It is said that in UNESCO, working on this t hesis, sales over $ 568181.82 per day (in education and literature. In this Indian language publishing we declared that even for economic the 10-12 days of the fair) amply information madness, the market start with publishing and end and social advancement, all debunks the above thesis. The has been flooded with quiz books with publishing, doing nothing developing countries should give general picture seems to suggest and books of general knowledge much before or after publishing. priority to literacy and education that a lot more books of a disseminating information in a Introduction of professionalism and for that purpose encourage serious nature related to political foreign language, which do not can be a great help in solving indigenous book publishing. theories, scientific subjects, touch the minds of children. all these related issues in Indian science fiction and history will As a result most of it becomes language publication. The Indian language publishing be the future demand in Indian irrelevant for them. Children world has yet to show concern languages. It is also speculated today are overfed on information, One very important point is that for developing its own concept by experts that books on subjects but starved for knowledge. in the West, Indian literature is though the six decades after like communication networks, They need the support of good generally taken to be Indian- independence have seen the science, environmental economy literature, especially created English literature which is only language publishing industry and behavioural cross currents, for them, keeping their needs a minute fraction of the total
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Indian Fiction THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE
K. SATCHIDANANDAN
Indian fiction the product of a marriage between the traditional form of story-telling and the Western fiction of the Nineteenth century, has indeed come a long way.
he ever-inventive Indian Kundera’s claim that the novel imagination has been is essentially a European form, T weaving an endless web of Indian novelists have handled tales from time immemorial, from the genre with aplomb and have the tribal tales and the fables made novel and short story to a of Panchatantra, the stories of lesser extent, the chief mode of Brihatkatha, Brihatkathamanjari, articulating their visions of life the Jataka tales and the tales of and society. In the post-colonial mores and modes of perception the nation and conjuring it into the Vikramaditya to the novels era, Indian fiction, both in Indian and the fresh social dynamism being in his or her own way, and stories of our own traumatic languages and in English entered set in motion by the emergence and often bringing a multiplicity times. Modern fiction emerged in a process of self-renewal in of hitherto marginalised sections of perspectives into play India from an intimate interaction content as well as in form, in its of the society into democratic through a variety of characters between this storytelling attempt to grasp the profound awareness. While the new Indian from different strata of society. tradition and the Western, contradictions of India’s fast- novel in English has attracted An activist Bengali writer like especially British, fiction in the changing socio-political and international readership, more Mahasweta Devi or an Assamiya Nineteenth century. Despite Milan psychological reality, its new novels in the languages too are writer like Birendra Kumar getting translated into English and Bhattacharya privileges the tribal European languages than ever perspective (the former’s Aranyer before. The Frankfurt Book Fair Adhikar or Right to the Forest) in 2006 with India as the ‘Guest or the latter’s Iyyaru Ingam of Honour’, a second time, and (People’s Region); a Tamil writer the Paris Book Fair with accent like Bama (Kurukku – which in on Indian writing that followed Tamil means the sharp-edged stem have both demonstrated the new of the palmera tree) and (Sangati enthusiasm Indian fiction has or Events), a Marathi writer like generated among readers and Lakshman Gaikwad (Uchalya – publishers in the West. a wandering tribe whose main profession for ages has been It has become a cliché of literary stealing) or Saran Kumar Limbale criticism to say that t he novelists (Akkarmashee) , a Gujarati writer in the so-called Third World like Joseph Macwan (Angaliyat ‘narrate the nation’; however, on or The Stepchild), a Kannada closer scrutiny we find that the writer like Siddalingaiah (Ooru novelists narrate not one, but Keri – an autobiography of a many nations, each imagining Dalit boy from the poverty-
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Gangopadhyay in Bengali Sen have now been joined by (Darashuko), Vrindavan Lal scores of new and powerful Verma in Hindi Jhansi ki Rani, writers from Sara Joseph, Gracy (The Queen of Jhansi), Masti and Sitara of Malayalam to Venkatesha Iyengar in Kannada Ambai of Tamil, Volga of Telugu, Chikkaveera Rajendra (Life Bani Basu of Bengali, Moushmi and struggle of Kodava King Kandali of Assamese, Sania of Chikkaveera Rajendra), Ranjeet Marathi and Geetanjali Sree of Desai in Marathi Swami (The Hindi. There is a whole new lord), Surendra Mohanty in Oriya generation of talented writers Nila Saila (The blue mountain) in all the Indian languages and Viswanatha in Telugu from Nabarun Bhattacharya Ekavira (The Solitary Hero) are in Bengali (Herbert) and Alka some examples. Together such Saraogi in Hindi (Kolikata via writers have covered a long Byepass or Kolkata through span of history from the twelfth the Bypass) to Jayamohan in century to the present with rare Tamil (Vishnupuram) and imagination and historical insight. K.P. Ramanunni in Malayalam Nalukettu (Ancestral house), O.V. Vijayan, M. Mukundan, (Jeevitathinte Pusthakam, The S.K. Pottekkaatt’s Oru Desathinte Sethu, N.S. Madhavan and Paul book of life) who have already Katha (The story of a village), Zacharia in Malayalam, U.R. Krishna Baldev Vaid and Vinod proved their credentials as Thakazhi Sivasankarapillai’s Ananthamurthy, Chandrasekhara Kumar Shukla in Hindi have all novelists of great talent. While Kayar (Coir) or M. Mukundan’s Kambar and Poornachandra contributed to the modernisation a few of these masterpieces are Mayyazippuzhayude Tejaswi in Kannada, of the genre by bringing in available in English – thanks to Theerangalil (On the banks of Sundararamaswamy and the complexities of modern publishers like Sahitya Akademi, River Mayyazhi) in Malayalam Jayamohan in Tamil, Suresh Joshi National Book Trust (NBT), or Sundararamaswamy’s life – particularly its angst and in Gujarati, Bhalchandra Nemade alienation – and inventing new Katha, Macmillan, OUP (Oxford Oru Puliyamarathin Kathai in Marathi and Nirmal Verma, University Press), Penguin, (The story of a Tamarind structures and idioms that best Affiliated East-West, Orient Tree) in Tamil. The partition express their fresh perceptions of India is a recurring theme of life and mind. The rise of a in post-Independence fiction number of women writers in the as in Sunil Gangopadhyay’s languages in recent years has Purab-O-Paschim (East and West) ensured the representation of in Bengali, Khushwant Singh’s women’s issues and women’s A Train to Pakistan in English or perspectives in Indian fiction. Yashpal’s Jhoota Sach (The False They reexamine the patriarchal Truth) in Hindi or Qurratulain canons and literary practices, Hyder’s Aag ka Dariyaa (The re-vision myths, reinterpret epics river of fire) in Urdu as in the and forge a counter-language and Urdu stories of Saadat Hasan found an alternative semiotics of Manto, Kishan Chandar and the body and beyond. Established Rajinder Singh Bedi. women novelists like Kamala Das, Amrita Pritam, Krishna Sobti, The historical novel has remained Ashapurna Devi, Ajeet Cour, a favourite genre with Indian Lakshmikantamma, Lalitambika writers right from the beginning Antarjanam, Pratibha Ray, Indira of novel in India. Shyamal Goswami and Nabaneeta Dev
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and Sudhir Kakar in Social Psychology and Psychoanalysis, Rajni Kothari, Francine Frankel in the social sciences in the last able to tap into a growing export and 95000 copies in paperback. and Randhir Singh in Political decade. Many of the books have market as well. Lastly, technology These figures are remarkable Science and A.K. Ramanujan, gone into successive reprints has helped to improve our considering that Penguin had Balachandra Rajan and Nissim and the list is now over 200 titles production standards and as selling rights only for South Ezekiel in Literature. strong. Its rapid success resulted a result, our books are more Asia. No academic publisher will in one of t he partners being elegantly designed and produced. The academic success story has commission books to only add chosen for the prestigious ‘Young The new ‘Print on Demand’ prompted even avowedly trade to the front list; most of the titles Publishers’ Award’ by the British technology (POD) has resulted in publishers like Penguin to add must have backlist potential, Council recently. an academic book never going on a general list by academic that is, they must have prospects out of print provided it’s in a authors to their growing fiction of being reprinted and must The growing has also resulted digital format. and non-fiction trade list. Oxford sell year after year. In short, in established imprints like University Press began its Oxford they must become works ‘of Routledge to commission authors The contributions of authors from India Paperbacks (OIPs) list in enduring value’. Older academic in the humanities and social India in the social sciences and a new avatar (it had paperbacks publishers have established a sciences from India. We may humanities have substantially before), about two decades relationship with their authors yet see more academic imprints added to our knowledge in ago. Originally, it started to put for the last thirty years or more specializing in the humanities these subject areas and have successful hardbacks into the and some of their works have and social sciences as the market also enhanced their academic paperback format. It has now attained the status of classics. continues to grow. The recent reputation both at home and acquired a status and distinct The most remarkable example of interest in translations from the abroad. Mention may be made identity of its own. Some new this is of course the Jim Corbett regional languages into English of the contributions of scholars titles are commissioned into the corpus (not strictly academic). has allowed regional classics like Amartya Sen, Sukhamoy OIP format straightaway. The list ‘Man-Eaters of Kumaon’ was first to access a bigger market, and Chakravarty, K.N. Raj, Amit is now over 500 titles and still published in India in 1944 and this has led some publishers to Bhaduri and Kaushik Basu in growing and has established a the rest as they say is history. include translated works in their Economics, D.D. Kosambi, firm clientele among academics All of Corbett’s works have been humanities list. Irfan Habib, Romila Thapar, and general readers. continuously in print ever since, Mushirul Hasan and Ranajit Publishing in the humanities a remarkable saga of publishing Guha in History (in fact, Guha’s Let us try and illustrate this and the social sciences in India continuity. editorship of the volumes under growing market. Amartya Sen’s needs to be sustained. While the ‘Subaltern Studies’ series was ‘The Argumentative Indian’ A comparative newcomer in international book fairs like a seminal and pioneering piece of commissioned by Penguin UK academic publishing, Permanent Frankfurt, London, the Salon du scholarship, M.N. Srinivas, Andre through its Allen Lane imprint Black has succeeded in Livre in Paris, Beijing, Tokyo Beteille, Ashis Nandy in Sociology sold 25000 copies in hardback establishing an impressive corpus and more recently, Abu Dhabi
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A Writer and His Workshop
TIRTHANKAR GHOSH
A true patron of literature, the Kolkata-based Writer’s Workshop, has provided the springboard for some of the best Indian writers in English for the last fifty years.
hat is the connection between rejection slips and Professor Purushottam Lal in Kolkata? Well, a lot. Professor Lal, W a teacher of English literature, runs Writer’s Workshop, described as “the iconic literary publishing house”. In its fifty years of existence, Professor Lal has with seven other writers, some single-handedly encouraged, of who are well-known names published and even projected today – Deb Kumar Das, Anita writers, who would otherwise Desai, Sasthibrata Chakravarti have stopped writing after (Sasti Bratha), William Hull, Jail receiving rejection slips from Ratan, Kewlian Sio and Pradip publishers. Among them are Sen – got together to start a Vikram Seth, Asif Currimbhoy, magazine which would publish Nissim Ezekiel, Jayanta their work and so, was born Mahapatra, Ruskin Bond, Pritish Writers Workshop Miscellany Nandy, Chandrakant Bakshi and and later Writer’s Workshop. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. In the five decades of its existence, WW has produced It was Professor Lal – a books which are virtual works poet best known for his of art. Each book is bound “transcreation” (as he terms it) in hand-spun saree cloth and of the entire Indian epic poem printed on handmade paper Mahabharata into English – with their titles inscribed with who could foresee the creative Professor Lal’s calligraphy. talent of all those who had been rejected by established Driven by schoolboyish publishers. Credited as “the enthusiasm, Professor Lal rare lover of literature who can espoused the cause of what he spot beauty before glowing terms “alternative publishing”. blurbs have been written about Such publishing is “desperately it and the rare publisher who needed wherever commercial doesn’t shudder at the thought publication rules. WW is not of poetry”, Professor Lal along a professional publishing
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Not many books have succeeded He started a trend. Even though nationally but many of t hem several other biographies of Bollywoodie Books! have worked their magic film personalities followed overseas. Despite the Rs. 3,000 soon after – notably Nabendu SURESH KOHLI (US$ 70) price tag and a weight Ghosh’s non-commi of almost four kilograms, Still volume on Ashok Kumar a Filmstars will continue to generate interest – on-screen and Reading Khan is hugely popular the “authorized” globally. Not many authorized Kishore Valicha, Raju Bharatan’s off-screen – and publishers have found that their personal biographies of some popular stars Lata Mangeshkar and Rachel lives make good material for books. Often hurried and off- have worked with the readers, Dwyer’s book on Yash Chopra – the-cuff, most of these books do not click in the market but though Jerry Pinto’s racy book they all suffered from the same authors and publishers remain unfazed. Yet, Big B and the on the gorgeous Helen became malady: they were lifeless and a runaway hit despite the author based on unconfirmed material. great Khan sell! never having met the subject! Though Bharatan scored on facts, he was spurned by Lata. here has been a steady stream of books on Bollywood. But, Although it all began many She, therefore, felt compelled to despite continuing craze among the young about filmstars, the decades ago when, a raw, commission an authorized book Tresponse – with the possible exception of the ones on Shah Rukh unemployed, ambitious and by Harish Bhimani. And that Khan – hardly justify the retrace and one-upmanship that the trade hungry youngman called Vinod attempt was worse. This was all has been witnessing for the past couple of years. Perhaps, the only Mehta (editor of the weekly so very appetizing. Bollywood, book that defied sceptics – and those who are ruing their stars for not Outlook) took a plunge and like Hollywood, thrived on gossip gauging its potential – is Dev Anand’s autobiography, Romancing with published an ill-researched and characters that were larger Life , which did remarkably well. Unlike his recent films, the response biography of Meena Kumari. than life! to the book has been astonishing. It has sold more than 20,000 copies
in less than a year! Books on Shah Rukh Khan seem to have bettered ROLI “ ShahRukhKhan’scareeristhekindof successstorythat placeanda specialeffectsset-upand astudioin theworks, I ama great,fantastic coloursmovielore– theoutsider whogatecrashed into hisaim ofbecomingthecompletemoviemoghulnow at the right time.That is the descri that performance. Bollywoodand stayedontoreach superstardom,leavingall looksachievable. hiscontemporariesbehind. When a star of his stature approaches a career Over the last decade or so,as Hindi cinema has grown milestoneofsixty films,and getstoa stagewherehe andreached outto audiencesacrossthe world,especially clearlyneedsto chartunexplored territory,it isperhaps theSouthAsian diaspora,ShahRukh’sfame andpopularity timefor a mid-career assessment.That iswhat Deepa K havegrownin proportion.Hepersonifiesthe media-savvy, Gahlot,journalist, critic, columnist, editor, author and i money-smart,focused professional that today’s world screenwriter,attemptstodo inthis book,by analysingthe n idolizes. He made movies that were blockbusters, he variousphasesof ShahRukh’slifeandcareerandputting g createdtheSRKbrand,andwitha productioncompanyin themin perspective. K h a n
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Curry and rice and other things nice
KISHORE SINGH
Indian publishing is fattening on the spoils of the kitchen. As cookbook writers – there are as many accomplished ones as there are wannabes – vie with each other to dish out a variety of recipes with the most enticing photographs, readers are lapping them up with equal speed.
f there is at least one restaurant openings, a greater (thankfully unwritten) book in availability of ingredients (local equally for his meals with which Ievery person, it is equally true as well as imported) and a he admittedly seduced impossibly that everyone wants to write a growing taste for exotic foods, it highly-paid Hollywood stars to cookbook, or a book of recipes, is inevitable that the written word act in their celluloid productions. or something nostalgic about the that holds them together in a And he often rustled up these way mummy-made-it. complicated skein will itself grow. meals, so he himself said on occasions, with almost nothing Housewives, celebrity chefs, But who is a cookbook writer? in his refrigerator, or at best Or more pertinently, who is best students, food journalists – almost hurriedly-purchased from the equipped to write cookbooks? everyone is churning them corner stores. But Merchant- out faster than you can count Ismail Merchant, who gave us Ivory’s food, like their cinema, them. With the food industry cinema’s most beautiful, most was ephemeral, a moment booming with groaning shelves enduring images – along with of magic construed up with of processed food packages, James Ivory – became an icon cinematic flourish – they were clearly more innovative than purist chefs. It was inevitable that they should write a cookbook or two and they did, and like most such books, these flew off the shelves, to be devoured by those who call this kind of reading gastronomic pornography.
But here comes the crunch: try and follow Ismail’s recipes and you will wonder what the fuss was all about. You will find his recipes easy enough, but the result too is equally simple and, perhaps, less impressive than you might have thought. That
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a nation of dal-makhni diners India has had its legions of into Italian gourmands, has just food writers. Tarla Dalal and had her book on Italian cooking Nita Mehta have for years held published – and what a delight the mythical hands of nervous it is! The girl-from-a-vegetarian- brides and first-time party- household who turned hobby throwers through the mysteries chef writes just as brilliantly as of everything from mutton she cooks, and it shows in her do-piyaza to paneer jalfrezi , Chettinad, Syrian Christian, Only Sanjeev Kapoor does it with recipes, with the helpful hints from tacos to tiramisu, with Punjabi, Bengali or Rajasthani. more flourish. The chef whose and suggestions allowing you such élan, you wonder at their These aren’t pretty books to awkwardness showed when he enough confidence to replace industriousness. Their recipes be read for sheer pleasure, but first made an appearance on one ingredient with another, one are simple and, what’s more, instructional, practical ones that television, may have shed some herb with another, without the adaptable: the Italian, Mexican, tell you how to make a soufflé of that tentativeness, but he unpredictability of results. Now, Greek, Thai, Burmese, Japanese that will rise, and a caramel created a legion of millions of that is a cookbook! are almost as easy as the Gujarati, pudding that will set. fans who craved for instruction
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sauce; and prettily illustrated ones a little help with brushes of on how to make an upside down oil) and just as suddenly, food pineapple cake, muffins and stylist was a job description. breads. Food photographers needed to be trained, artful devices were It was the nineties before we needed to make the food stand saw the arrival of the Indian out, and it became impossible equivalents, the small handbooks to imagine a cookbook without of handy recipes for gulab pictures. jamun and rassogolla , for chole bhature and parathas and The exciting thing was that daals , rice and biryanis . That foreign readers (and publishers) was when the cult started too loved Indian cookbooks with of ambitious, but also lush, just as much passion as we in cookbooks, where photography India did. No longer put off was even more important than by the exotic ingredients (or the recipes. And there we were, maybe the growing diaspora suddenly bewitched by how meant you could find it anyway the tadka daals that we hadn’t in all the little Indias springing even glanced at, now served up across continents and cities), you perhaps rightly so – were called so appetisingly in their glossy couldn’t find enough people to in to contribute their secret pages. The meats glistened (with write them for you. Chefs – and recipes to collective efforts, or given over complete and quite lavish books to assemble, and they did it with aplomb. Specialist publishing houses hunted out the names that counted for something from the world of Indian cuisine – sometimes they were professionals, such as Karen Anand or Rashmi Uday Singh still by the fabulous recipes first or Camellia Panjabi who made put together by those demi-gods the gourmet Indian restaurant of Indian cooking: the perniticky first possible in London; at Jiggs Kalra and Digvijai Singh other times, they were simply Sailana. people who knew how to cook an awesome meal, throw Our shelves swelled some an awesome party. Popular more with hard bounds and publishing houses looked at paperbacks, and we read more anthologies on food writing, and more about food (did and went to experts to deliver we cook less and less in the gourmet reads on travelogues bargain?), and as we surrendered that were based on the discovery to the pleasures of imagined of regional cuisines. Everyone gastronomic heavens, it became found their own followers, but clear that there were other stars housewives who knew, swore waiting on the horizon to be
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New Delhi World Book Fair
NUZHAT HASSAN
For over three decades, the New Delhi World Book Fair has been bridging the gap between publishers and readers. The largest book fair in the Afro-Asian region, it has acquired the status of a ‘treasure trove’ for book lovers all over the world.
he New Delhi World Book Fair (NDWBF), organised by the National Book Trust, has emerged as the largest book fair in the T Afro-Asian region
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The first NDWBF was held in 1972 at Windsor Place, in the heart of Lutyen’s Delhi, and had nearly 200 participants from India and abroad. However, it was in 1976 that NDWBF acquired a full fledged professional look as it moved to the sprawling complex of Pragati Maidan, or the Exhibition Grounds. From 1976, NDWBF became a biennial affair. In 2006, it had 1,293, participants which has kept increasing every year and has also begun to attract foreign exhibitors. While some of the major international book fairs, are generally speaking, rights- oriented, NDWBF has emerged as a platform for national and international publishers and as an opportunity for the general reader and intellectuals alike to browse through a canopic range of titles. It has also become the interface between all authors, publishers, exhibitors, translators, editors, literary agents from India and abroad. NDWBF introduced the Guest of Honour concept in 2008 with Russia as the first Guest of Honour country. The 19th edition of NDWBF will be held from January 30 to February 7, 2010 at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi. ◆ The author is Director, National Book Trust.
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