After twenty-odd years in Indian publishing, you develop certain instincts.You can tell how a meeting will end before it begins.You can predict which manuscript will be called “important” and which will be called “interesting but difficult.”You learn to read silences better than sentences.And you learn something else, something far less...

“मगध” - एक नगर, साम्राज्य, गणराज्य, युद्ध, महाप्रलय, सत्ता, पतन, पुनरुत्थान - सब कुछ और बहुत कुछ।कुछ कथ्य, कुछ अकथ्य।“मगध” में संग्रहित कविताएँ इतिहास नहीं हैं, बल्कि इतिहास का सम्मोहन, मायालोक, आंतरिक स्मृति और चेतना हैं। उजड़ चुके नगरों की गूँज हैं, उन पत्थरों की चीख हैं जिन पर कभी...

If there is one arena where India’s contradictions theatrically perform, it’s the intersection of books and Cash on Delivery.In a country that worships knowledge, quotes the Gita, swears by Shakespeare in English exams, and treats books as auspicious gifts wrapped in golden paper, we still hesitate to… pay for them...