Publishing in India: New Horizons

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A little over three decades ago I made my first, accidental entry into the world of publishing in India. A friend and I were playing a desultory game of table tennis while talking about what we were going to do with our lives. I was just finishing my Masters and wanted to make a decisive move away from English literature to something more ‘relevant’ to my life in the thriving, bustling, politically alive city of Delhi. The university was a hotbed of furious political debate, the women’s movement was just taking off — surely, I thought, there has to be more to life than Spenser and Milton (much though I loved them — or Milton at least). My friend then worked as a secretary in the Oxford University Press in Delhi. Why didn’t I, she suggested, try to do some freelance work there and see how I liked it. I thought her suggestion was brilliant. ...cont´d

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