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In the Westland office, a week ago, we discussed the ‘words’ we often come across these days in manuscripts – IMHO, LOL, BTW, ASAP, BFF. A few of our titles have gone on to publish some of these, unedited, especially if the style of writing happens to be casual, or the context demands text-speak, or [...]

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Reading Tomorrow: The Great E-book Debate

Select Westland/ Tranqubar titles are now available as e-books! In fact, we are amongst the first Indian publishers to upload digital versions of some of our titles. From bestsellers such as Rujuta Diwekar’s Women & the Weight Loss Tamasha, and Bishwanath Ghosh’s Chai Chai: Travels in Places Where You Stop but Never Get Off to [...]

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Fictive Sex: What Works for You?

Erotica, as a literary genre, has fascinated us at Tranquebar. Last year,  we published  Electric Feather, a collection of erotic short stories edited by Ruchir Joshi. This year we plan to bring out Slither: Carnal Prose, a series  of short stories by Urmilla Deshpande; an anthology of Sri Lankan erotica; as well as a sequel to Electric Feather to be [...]

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A New Chapter: Pakistani Writing in English

Between the the 14th and the 16th of January, Karachi  came to Kolkota as a part of the literary festival. To our absolute delight, a number of Tranquebar writers from Pakistan were invited. Shehryar Fazli – whose debut novel Invitation has been received with curiosity and enthusiasm; Nighat Gandhi – whose manuscript, Alternative Realities, on [...]

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The Literary Glass Ceiling: Fact or Fiction?

When we survey our catalogue, we at Tranquebar are enormously proud of the women writers we have had a chance to represent. In the past we have published Mridula Koshy’s If It is Sweet, which went on to win The Shakti Bhatt Prize, and Padma Vishwanathan’s The Toss of the Lemon, short-listed for The Commonwealth [...]

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