Historic Indian book market threatened by million square foot mall
The College Street market in Kolkata, India, has less than a year to prepare for the arrival of some serious competition. Peter Yeung at Atlas Obscura reports that the legendary market,… Read more »
In the aftermath of India’s historic ruling on gay sex, organizers plan first-ever Queer Literature Festival in Uttar Pradesh
On Thursday, September 6th, the Supreme Court of India unanimously declared unconstitutional that the country’s 150 year old ban on consensual gay sex. It was a momentous decision, one which… Read more »
An Indian publisher included Hitler in their “Great Leaders” children’s book, alongside Obama, Mandela, and Gandhi
Voices around the world have urged an Indian publisher to cease distribution of a children’s book called Great Leaders, which includes Adolf Hitler among its examples, according to a Times of Israel staff report. According to… Read more »
When prime ministers use bad grammar on the meanest forum in the world
Ah, for the salad days, before Twitter, when we had to wait to mock politicians until they audibly uttered their terrible grammar (we’ll never forget you, Dan Quayle, you mighty Potatoe-head). It’s… Read more »
Amazon has had a very busy couple of days
What matches the dictionary’s definition of a monopoly to a T, isn’t particularly profitable, makes your kids grow up rude, and can’t seem to stop making news? Yeah, you guessed… Read more »
“Read More, India” promotes reading across the country
According to the NOP World Culture Score Index, India is a nation of readers, with citizens reading more, by the hour, than any other nation: an average of ten hours… Read more »
What’s causing India’s textbook crisis?
(Trigger warning for any of you production department employees out there—this story gets into some very anxiety-inducing territory.) The southern Indian state of Kerala recently saw a violent clash between… Read more »
Bertelsmann continues to take on the world. Next up: Brazil, China, and India
Bertelsmann, the German media giant that owns that little publisher Penguin Random House, has decided to grow in the education and digital media markets abroad. The company announced yesterday that it… Read more »
Amazon has a monopoly on India’s conservative president’s new book
The president of India, Pranab Mukherjee, has written a book that’s due to come out this week, about Indira Gandhi’s reign as prime minister. But, in a move that Kim… Read more »
Amazon is having problems in India because it doesn’t want to pay taxes
Earlier this summer, Amazon announced that it would be investing $2 billion to expand its operations in India—that announcement unsurprisingly came hours after FlipKart, widely considered to be the “Indian… Read more »