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Monday 13th February

Indian Publishing Needs To Get Less Fun

Posted at 9:43AM Sunday 04 Jul 2010

In India it is editors who decide what readers get to read. Why is it that mediocrity becomes a goal in the attempt to bridge a non-existent divide between 'literary' and 'commercial' fiction?

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