Simon & Schuster announces first list of Indian titles

New York-based publishers Simon & Schuster has announced its first list of Indian titles that would come out next year with the authors including the likes of Keki N Daruwalla, Jairam Ramesh and Samanth Subramanian.
The list, announced last night at an event to mark five years of the publishing house's operations in India, includes both established as well as debut writers.
Subramanian's book "The Last Man Who Knew Everything: J B S Haldane's Life and Science" deals with the essential moral questions of science while detailing the extraordinary life of one of the geniuses of the modern era Haldane.

Daruwala's novel "Letter to Mamma" spans India's pre- and post-Independence history and is a celebration of words.
Ramesh in his book "Indira Gandhi: A Life in Nature" details an unknown facet of the life of Indira Gandhi as a lover of nature. It draws extensively from unpublished letters, notes, instructions and memos, as well as from many of her speeches and writings that have not been included in the official compendium.
The other books include "Spark: The Insight to Growing Brands" by McDonald's Paddy Rangappa and former IIM-A director Jagdeep S Chhokar's "Born Local, Going Global: Management Across Cultures".

The new voices are Natasha Badhwar, Prayaag Akbar, Priyanka Dubey and Priya Sahgal.

According to Editorial Director, Dharini Bhaskar, the aim is to provide a home for acquisitions not just in the subcontinent but beyond.
"We offer 'global' publishing in the truest sense by engaging in a dialogue with our sister companies in the UK, the US, Canada and Australia, and earning their complete support and interest. Many of the books in this list, that we hold world rights to, will travel across seas; several in the offing will take similar journeys," she says.
The books, she says, display Simon & Schuster's commitment to the environment.
"Internationally, and in India, our titles carry an FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) stamp. This means that the paper we use comes from responsible sources. We are committed to healing a world that is at the brink of an ecological disaster," Bhaskar, who joined Simon & Schuster in August, says.