(Source: Amazon.in | Designed by Gargi Singh)Last year, the literary roster of various publication houses included biographies of political leaders as well as books on Indian history. Manu S Pillai’s The Courtesan, the Mahatma and the Italian Brahmin: Tales from Indian History, Vikram Sampath’s Savarkar: Echoes from a Forgotten Past among others were published and widely read. “People want to read about history and not just colonial history,” Sayantan Ghosh, senior commissioning editor at Simon and Schuster, India had stated. I guess the way in which politics is unfolding, there is a lot of focus on Indian history, proximate and far back. –Manasi Subramaniam, Executive Editor and Head of Literary Rights(As told to Ishita Sengupta)📣 The Indian Express is now on Telegram.

Source: Indian Express August 15, 2020 05:52 UTC