Publishing and the Pandemic
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Life, death, intimacy and privilege: Four works of Covid-19 fiction – and what they say about us
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A year of mourning with books: How literature helped cope with personal losses from Covid-19
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Remembering Homen Borgohain (1932-2021), the Assamese writer who influenced generations of readers
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How this children’s publisher defied the downtrend to boost sales during the pandemic
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While other libraries closed down, this community library in rural UP was begun during the pandemic
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Why Pagdandi of Pune transformed its library-cum-cafe into a bookstore during the pandemic
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Before the pandemic and (maybe) after: A catalogue of what cities lose
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‘My husband died of Covid-19. To channel my pain, I went back to writing the novel I had started’
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India’s national archives might go partly out of reach for writers. What happens to their holdings?
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In Varanasi, Harmony bookshop is keeping its faith in the return of customers once the pandemic ends
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How a student in rural Bengal is defying the pandemic (and cyclones) with his libraries
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Siddalingaiah (1954-2021): The Dalit poet who broke the rules and challenged the norms
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Shekhar Malhotra (1954-2021): Reluctant publisher, avid bookseller, another person lost to Covid
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Yogesh Sharma was not done with his work in Indian publishing. Covid-19 put an end to it
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Padma Baliga was on a mission to set up classroom libraries, till Covid-19 stopped her forever
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Will Mussoorie’s Cambridge Book Depot open after the pandemic? Residents and visitors are hoping so
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Interview: Does a literary jury need to think differently in the year of a pandemic?
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As Marathi publishing loses its sales pillars to the pandemic, waiting for change is the only option
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Why Bareilly’s landmark Syndicate Book House may find it difficult to reopen after the second wave
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Why the prize money for Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize 2021 is going to Covid-19 relief
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Goodbye Sumanta Dey: Writer Richa Jha mourns the loss of her artist collaborator to Covid-19
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Not many people read books in Pakistan. How then are the bookshops coping with the pandemic?
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With the deaths of its pillars Anil Dharker and Shashi Baliga, what lies ahead for Tata Litlive?
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‘Eid in the Days of Plague’: This short story is born of the imagination in a time of grim reality
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Subhadra Sen Gupta (1952-2021): A beloved children’s author is taken away by Covid-19
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How Kolkata’s famous Mohan’s Bookshop lost its battle against the Covid-19 pandemic
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In a Mumbai slum, a library for children is battling the second wave as single-mindedly as the first
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Why Gujarati publishing now is a story of tragic realism in the time of the pandemic
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Born in the pandemic, these libraries in Bengal run with meagre resources but get people reading
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How schoolchildren built a library network for students without access to books during the lockdown
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Nine locations and one pandemic later, this independent bookstore still woos Patna’s booklovers
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How the pandemic shut down business for this bookseller on local trains in Bengal
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How a library run by kids came to the rescue of children of migrant workers during the pandemic
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How a school is being built during the pandemic with the library as its fulcrum
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For this family-owned bookshop, the pandemic closed its three stores temporarily – but not its sales
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Love and lockdowns: What kind of tragic romances will be written after the pandemic?
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How a people’s library sprang up during the pandemic in the town of Roing in Arunachal Pradesh
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How this storytelling festival for schoolchildren switched gears to cope with the pandemic
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A writer’s pain: My grandmother helped me through grief. The pandemic may not let me see her again
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How this bookshop in Srinagar used discounts and delivery innovations to survive Covid-19
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More reading, and even more listening: How the pandemic has affected literature in Bhutan
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For this bookseller of Kabul, the pandemic was a blip in a country afflicted by long-term war
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How this gallery’s art publishing became the medium through which it operated during the pandemic
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Reading Harry Potter (and the Deathly Hallows) in a new light during the coronavirus pandemic
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Insider predictions: What does the future of publishing look like after the pandemic?
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Even an imaginative novelist could not predict what a panic attack in quarantine would be like
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This second-hand bookseller revived his business during the pandemic by selling ‘rare books’ online
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Literary awards: How the pandemic is changing the nature of prizes and prizewinning books
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Kitab Khana: Squeezed by the lockdown, gutted by a fire, the Mumbai bookshop is scripting a revival
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This children’s library in Hyderabad almost closed down during the pandemic. What revived it?
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How the Bangalore Literature Festival 2020 was held neither online nor on-ground, but in both forms
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How to open a new bookshop during the pandemic: The story of Sudarsan Books of Nagercoil
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How do you run India’s biggest literary prize, the JCB Prize for Literature, in a pandemic year?
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‘The Masks Before The Pandemic’: Manu Bhattathari’s short story peels off layers of inscrutability
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In Goa’s Margao, a book club thriving on physical meetings has shown how to switch to the virtual
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How the founders of community libraries for children are raising money during the pandemic
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How the Bombay plague shut down a human book factory: The life and death of Narayan Hemchandra
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Amidst the pandemic, a school dropout in Kashmir waits for the library he started to reopen
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Pandemic pastimes: An author of children’s books finds ways to use words to unlock young minds
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What it means to be a Kolkata bookseller’s son (with a disability) before and during the pandemic
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Walden, Hyderabad (1990-2020): The bookshop that, sadly, could not survive the pandemic
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‘It is surreal to perform dastangoi on Zoom, where viewers are muted and all cameras are off’
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For this small publishing company in Nagaland, not even the pandemic has extinguished hope
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How to get published during the pandemic and afterwards (warning: it will not be easy)
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How a community library in Mumbai dependent on generosity and goodwill is coping with the pandemic
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Exiled and distanced from its home, Tibetan writing has long reflected the spirit of the pandemic
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While book publishers slowed down during the pandemic, this writing platform accelerated
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How did a travelling indie bookshop close down and then re-open in the middle of a pandemic?
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A writer explains why she misses the lockdown brought on by the pandemic
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The pandemic forced the Frankfurt Book Fair to go digital. What did this mean for literary agents?
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As book publishing shrinks during the pandemic, how are India’s printing presses coping?
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How IIT alumni built a book club in Chennai and kept it going through the pandemic
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Publishing in the pandemic from a small state: How Goa, 1556 is trying to change the game
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Mumbai’s elegantly curated Wayword & Wise bookshop refuses to go online despite the pandemic. Why?
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What it meant to write and publish books on the Mahabharata and the Ramayana during the pandemic
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The many ways in which Delhi’s The Bookshop reinvented itself during the pandemic
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Why the pandemic will lead to a rush of new books on investment, personal finance and start-ups
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For Tara Books, maker of handmade books, the road to sustenance in the pandemic has not been easy
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Corporate competition and Covid-19: Faizabad’s Hindi newspaper ‘Jan Morcha’ is fighting both
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How Chennai’s Higginbothams, India’s oldest bookstore, is responding to the pandemic
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How a university press built its list, was shut down by the pandemic and a cyclone, and fought back
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The case of the disappearing novel and the pandemic-struck market
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I read, therefore I hope: A bibliophile’s paean to bookstores, especially Delhi’s Midland Book Shop
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‘Migrants’: This short story speaks for many of those forced to walk back home during the lockdown
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How a bookshop-in-mall chain learnt to stop worrying about, and start loving, the new normal
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What books on the pandemic, published during and after the lockdown, are telling us about Covid-19
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Dying of Covid-19: What reading Atul Gawande’s ‘Being Mortal’ makes us think about right now
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‘Cabin No 1130-A’: Manoj Kumar Panda’s short story set in a hospital during the pandemic
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Can books be distributed in newer ways during the pandemic and after? Can they even be reinvented?
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How the pandemic has widened the opportunity to take translated literature to readers
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What led Delhi’s Bahrisons to open a new bookshop in the capital during the pandemic?
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‘Plague Ki Chudail’: This bittersweet short story from 1902 explores grief, fear and mortality
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‘We’re hoping we can have some version of a physical festival’: Sanjoy Roy on Jaipur Lit Fest 2021
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From books on the metro to books in the courier, this book-sharing service has reinvented itself
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Low costs, moderate hopes: How Hyderabad’s last independent bookstore is trying to survive Covid-19
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How the pandemic has changed the idea of university literary communities dramatically
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What a literary publisher thinks (and reads) when thinking about publishing during the pandemic
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Goa’s Broadway Book Centre is fighting the pandemic with online sales and offline reader intimacy
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Why the pandemic has converted this novelist from pessimism to optimism
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How the pandemic has changed writing, creating, and community-building for children’s writers