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Gita Press: All you need to know about the 100-year-old publisher
The Gita Press was started by businessmen Jai Dayal Goenka, Ghanshyam Das Jalan, and Hanuman Prasad Poddar on April 29, 1923.
Updated on Jun 19, 2023 07:03 PM IST
Two die in mishap while chasing police vehicle
Publishing house owner Mohit Garg and his aunt Chitra Garg were chasing the vehicle of Hapur police who were taking away his uncle in connection with a cheque bounce case. A mini truck collided with their scooty near Ghosipur village on Hapur Road.
Updated on Apr 29, 2023 12:02 AM IST
Provide security to Amritsar publisher: High court to Punjab govt
The Punjab and Haryana high court has directed the home secretary to provide adequate security to an Amritsar publisher, following allegations of desecration of Sikh religious literature. The publishers claimed that religious leaders and their supporters threatened them, while the local administration and police colluded with the protesters. The court stated that while action could be taken in accordance with the law if desecration had occurred, there was no place for "force and muscle power".
Updated on Apr 19, 2023 01:20 AM IST
HT Correspondent, Chandigarh
Indian publishing houses innovate reading in times of coronavirus lockdown
Digital delivery is the new name of the game even as publishers await the reopening of brick-and-mortar bookstores.
Updated on Apr 17, 2020 09:16 AM IST
New Delhi | Indo Asian News Service
InQueerable Happenings’ Short and Salty plays showcases diverse LGBT experiences
As the Section 377 verdict completes 377 days, InQueerable Happenings celebrates with the showcase of a short theatre fest in Mumbai
Updated on Sep 21, 2019 02:28 PM IST
Mumbai | Yoshita Rao
Sahir Ludhianvi’s handwritten notes, poems found at Mumbai scrap shop
Mumbai-based Film Heritage Foundation, a non-governmental organisation, found these items recently amid a dump of newspapers and magazines at the scrap shop in Juhu, and now it plans to preserve and exhibit the archives.
Updated on Sep 09, 2019 12:49 AM IST
New Delhi | Press Trust of India, New Delhi
Manto and Chughtai: The Essential Stories, a collection of short stories by Saadat Hasan Manto and Ismat Chughtai published
The collection, by two of the most prominent Urdu writers of modern India, features some of the best known stories on themes such as communal violence, the Partition, sex, relationships, and more.
Updated on Aug 24, 2019 01:08 PM IST
New Delhi | Press Trust of India
Publishing house owner arrested with 9.4 Kg gold worth Rs 3 crore at Delhi airport
According to the customs officers, the two men arrived at the Delhi airport’s terminal three during the early hours of Wednesday and were intercepted following a tip off.
Updated on Aug 08, 2019 11:31 PM IST
New Delhi | HT Correspondent
‘I’ll send Robert De Niro one of the first copies of my autobiography’
Anupam Kher, who is all set to release his autobiography next month, feels nostalgia is very painful. The legendary actor’s idol will the book’s first copy
Updated on Jul 22, 2019 05:39 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Navneet Vyasan
Pishaach Sundari Ka Badla: Enter the dark, secret world of India’s horror writers
Horror was a steady seller in the world of Hindi pulp fiction, traditionally dominated by crime stories. Now, e-books & online sales are giving the subgenre new life
Updated on Jan 24, 2019 06:28 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Danish Raza
New Chinese comic shows Karl Marx as a romantic, teenage rebel
The “Lingfengzhe” or The Leader, the first comic book about Marx to be printed and released in China, is an effort to make the ideologue accessible and popular among teenagers in the country.
Updated on Jan 18, 2019 06:02 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Sutirtho Patranobis
2018 was phenomenal, perfect for books, say publishers
Besides numerous autobiographies and biographies, there were books on business, commercial and mass market fiction, literary fiction, self-help, chick-lit and culinary besides graphic novels and children’s storybooks.
Updated on Jan 03, 2019 02:04 PM IST
Press Trust of India | Press Trust of India
Birthday present for Dimple Kapadia: Her film, Drishti, is going to be restored
Dimpla Kapadia and Shekhar Kapur starrer Drishti (1990) helmed by Govind Nihalani, is being restored by Film Heritage Foundation, led by Shivendra Singh Dungarpur.
Updated on Jun 09, 2018 12:06 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Ranjan Das Gupta, New Delhi