13 Mar Why Curate When You Can Publish?
By V. GeethaFor over twenty years now, we have curated exhibitions to do with our books and publishing. Some of these have focused on individual titles, others on our book-making, and yet others on broad themes that define our intertwined publishing concerns — to do with content, form and printing. As we worked on Painting Everything in the World, we pondered over these other exhibitions. What, we asked ourselves, is the relationship between curation and publishing?
24 Aug How A Potter’s Tale Took Shape
By V. GeethaOf the many titles that we have published over this quarter century, books featuring tribal and folk art outnumber all others. The artists that we have worked with come from different traditions, spread across the country, but there are almost none from southern India. Seeing Ramu Velar at work, we realised that this part of India might not have living traditions of art, but there were artisanal traditions that could furnish visual content for illustrated books.
12 Jul Tree Covers: The Night Life of Trees Keeps Growing
By Gita Wolf & Divya VijayakumarOur enduring classic The Night Life of Trees is currently in its 15th English-language edition! Along with the 33 foreign language editions of the book, which have been published by our partners in 8 languages, this adds up to a staggering total of 120,864 copies worldwide! To celebrate its long-standing legacy, we’ve brought out a poster called Tree Covers, showcasing the many looks of this quintessential book.
17 Mar The Hindu
…looks at the city with the wonder and humility of a child, and makes endearing and poignant observations about the city by using the symbolic vocabulary of Gond art
24 Feb Making Connections: a Tribute to John Berger
By Gita Wolf & V. GeethaLike for so many others, John Berger was an inspirational figure for us, a long while before Tara was born or even thought of. It was from him that we learnt to look at and think about art in a way that no one had taught us before. As young feminists, his ideas became a kind of foundation, a place from which it was possible to set out and look at things differently.
29 Dec The London Jungle Book – Hindi
Visual travelogue from a Gond tribal artist reverses the anthropological gaze.
08 Feb The Churki-Burki Book of Rhyme
Meet Churki and Burki, the rhyming sisters, and spend a day with them in their village, playing and singing songs.