New Delhi, Jan 17 (PTI) Westland Publications haslaunched a new literary imprint Context to publish "serious,thoughtful and politically-engaged" fiction and non-fictionworks, mostly in hardback, by writers from the Indiansubcontinent.
"Lively and polemical, and always reaching for nuance,these are books that challenge the status quo while givingvoice to a range of opinions and some literary adventurism,"Westland Publications Private Limited, an Amazon company,said.
Under the Context imprint, seven titles are beingpublished between January and March – "Indira", a graphicbiography of Indira Gandhi by Devapriya Roy and Priya Kuriyan;"An Ordinary Man's Guide to Radicalism" by Neyaz Farooquee;"Peace Has Come" by Parismita Singh; "Poonachi or The Story ofa Black Goat" by Perumal Murugan; "The Snake and the Lotus", agraphic novel by Appupen; "Illiberal India, Gauri Lankesh'sbiography by Chiddananda Rajghatta"; and "The Tandoor Murder"by Maxwell Pereira.
Gautam Padmanabhan, CEO of Westland Publications, said,"Context adds a new imprint and an exciting literary chapterto Westland, and I am hopeful that we will be able to takethese books to readers all over the world."According to Karthika V K, publisher, Context andWestland, "The focus at Context is on fine writing thatentertains and provokes, like the best books have always done,and finding new and young voices that speak to our times.""Poonachi or The Story of a Black Goat" is a commentaryon the human condition and on the vulnerabilities of theartistic life will release in English first and then in eightIndian languages.
"Iliberal India: Gauri Lankesh and the Age of Unreason"is an intimate and insightful biography of the journalistkilled last year, while "The Tandoor Murder" is about themurder case that took place in July 1995 and sent the countryinto a frenzy of horror and anger.
This never-before-told inside story of the investigationthat solved the case and sent the murderer to jail is writtenby Pereira, the high-profile police officer who led it. PTIZMNBK.
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