13 Sep Subash’s Sun Card
A brilliant rendering of the sun in the Gond style of tribal art silkscreen-printed on handmade paper.
27 Aug Nonsense
By Anushka RavishankarI did not discover nonsense so much as recognise it with a shout of joy when I was almost twenty years old. What a waste of two decades! Of course, I had read nonsense as a child. I’d read the wickedly funny poems in the Alice books by Lewis Carroll and I knew some of Edward Lear’s gently silly poems and limericks. But I had no idea that nonsense was a respected literary genre. (Well, sort of respected.)
29 Jul The Past is Always Present: 28 Years of Tara Books
By Gita Wolf and V. GeethaYears later, when asked about Tara’s origins, Gita Wolf would say, “I didn’t really have a business plan, nor had I thought through all that publishing involved. As an avid child-reader fed on Anglo-Saxon books, it seemed to me that fun and adventure seemed to happen only to children in other places… and I wondered, why not right here?”
19 Jul The Allegory Tree
Durga Bai: A tree is home to many stories.
19 Jul The Tell-Tale Tree
Durga Bai: The birds bring back news.
19 Jul The Leaf Tree
Bhajju Shyam: The detail is the same as the whole.
19 Jul The Antler Tree
Ramsingh Urveti: A deer wonders when his antlers will bloom.
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?