Imagine a new series of affordably priced books on politics, philosophy, sociology, economics, science, history and the like, available widely all across India in each of the Indian languages.
Prem Shanka Jha's obituary of Shamlal provides a hint of what could happen, if this becomes reality.
Sometime in the 1930s, Penguin’s new paperback series on politics, philosophy and sociology became available in a bookshop in Delhi. Today, when any book can be ordered on the Internet, it is difficult to imagine the impact these books had on a brilliant and impressionable young mind. Shamlal fell in love with ideas and, from that day till his eyes finally gave out four years ago, he spent a fifth of his income every month on books.
We, at New Horizon Media, believe that non-English India is hungry for knowledge and ideas and the time is ripe to replicate in today's India, Penguin's successes of the late 1930s.
We want to make this happen. If you would like to get involved, drop me a line (satya_AT_nhm_DOT_in).
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