Category Archives: Events

A Book Trail in Mexico

By admin | Published: January 7, 2012

I was invited to the Guadalajara book fair, recently, on a publisher’s fellowship. Afterwards, my travels around Mexico took me to the state of Chiapas, to visit an extraordinary book making cooperative of Mayan women called Taller Lenateros, The Woodlanders’ Workshop. Impossible to sum up otherwise, I decided to turn my experience into a small [...]

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Sita’s Ramayana: The Many Lives of a Text

By admin | Published: December 5, 2011

In the aftermath of Delhi University’s decision to ban A K Ramanujan’s essay discussing disparate versions of The Ramayana, Tara publisher V.Geetha reflects upon the many lives of the text, and in particular our recently published retelling of the great epic from the female point of view, Sita’s Ramayana. 5 people like this post. Like [...]

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Social Publishing

By admin | Published: October 3, 2011

Last month, Tara’s Maegan Dobson attended Publishing Next – India’s first conference on the future of publishing. There she spoke about social networking from the perspective of an independent publishing house, joining a conversation that touched upon subjects as diverse as technology, dissemination, class and language. Here Maegan discusses the experience, reflecting on some of [...]

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Women’s Art of the Everyday

By admin | Published: June 23, 2011

A Workshop Exploring Indian Floor Patterns All over India, there are enduring traditions of women decorating the threshold of their homes with decorative patterns. Known by different names in various communities, they are called kolam in Tamil Nadu. Women create them every day with rice paste or powder, and by nightfall, they are usually gone. [...]

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The Literature of Conflicted Lands

By admin | Published: April 29, 2011

Why is it that conflict-torn lands often produce fiction that delves into deep human recesses? Does this writing have the power to influence the conflict itself? Here writer and critic Miguel Fernandes Ceia, from the Asia House Festival of Literature, interviews author Daisy Hasan. Daisy’s debut novel ‘The To-Let House’ explores the often forgotten conflict [...]

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The Politics of Voice

By admin | Published: September 29, 2010

Folk and Tribal Art in Children’s Literature “It may seem, at first glance, that the majority is the dominant force in every society, but those who dramatically change their world, now and throughout history, always belong to the minority.” With this motto, the International Board on Books for Young People – IBBY – organised their [...]

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Librarians and the Future of Books

By admin | Published: July 7, 2010

In late June, I traveled on behalf of Tara Books to Washington, D.C. for the annual American Library Association conference. In humid weather that reminded one of Chennai in March, over 25,000 librarians, educators and exhibitors gathered for a weekend of panels, presentations and publishers. This was Tara Books first year as an exhibitor; other [...]

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I Have a Right

By admin | Published: December 23, 2009

At Bookaroo, Delhi At the Aviva Young Scholar Bookaroo Festival in Delhi, there were many activities, talks and readings for children to choose from at any given time. So I wondered if children would choose to spend an hour and a half on something as serious as human rights. It turned out they would— ‘I [...]

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Comics from China

By admin | Published: November 19, 2009

At the Frankfurt Book Fair 2009 Tara has visited the Frankfurt Book Fair every year in our 15 year history. Much has changed and progressed in this time, but the five days in the bustling fair halls continue to remain an important fixture in our calendar. For all the intensive preparation (juggling appointments and getting [...]

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Thoughts from Russia

By admin | Published: October 7, 2009

Reflections after the Moscow Book Fair, ’09 When I was invited to be part of the Indian delegation to the Moscow Book Fair last month, the ghost of an old love stirred again…and I thought once more about the wonderful Soviet books that I had read as a child. 2 people like this post. Like [...]

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