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A Designer’s Journey: I Saw a Peacock with a Fiery Tail

By admin | Published: February 13, 2012

Tara’s outgoing resident designer Jonathan Yamakami reflects upon the creative journey he embarked upon when working on ‘I Saw a Peacock with a Fiery Tail’. A 17th century English ‘trick’ poem, Tara’s version is illustrated by artist Ramsingh Urveti from India’s Gond tribe.   25 people like this post. Like Unlike

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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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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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Questioning the Greats

By admin | Published: February 17, 2011

Education, Authority & the Indian Epics Samhita Arni wrote and illustrated Tara’s ‘The Mahabharatha: a Child’s View’ when she was just twelve. Fifteen years, almost 50,000 copies worldwide and seven language editions later, we have just released the fifth edition of the book in a single volume. To mark this milestone, Samhita returns to her [...]

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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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