In his book Illiberal India: Gauri Lankesh and the Age of Unreason Chidanand Rajghatta says, “She had a volatile temper in her youth that I often defused with jokes.” An Excerpt: Sometime in 1993, either burnt out or disenchanted with her job in Sunday magazine, Gauri took a sabbatical to go to Paris under a journalists’ exchange […]

Ex-Publisher and Chief Editor at HarperCollins India is to start a new publishing division for Amazon owned Westland Publishers. She had stepped down from HarperCollins last year, shocking the publishing industry and creating much speculation about what she would do next. The new division that she will head at Westland will focus on literary and […]