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(October 11, 2023 update: A new Indian edition of the book has just been published by Aleph under the title Three Countries, Three Lives:...

An inescapable part of editing academic material is Internet research, which can unexpectedly entertain and inform (see The Serendipitous...

In the book To Kill a Democracy: India's Passage to Despotism by Debashish Roy Chowdhury and John Keane, I came across this sentence...

This passionately written book (The Invention of Surgery by David Schneider) describes the giant strides medicine has made since its...

The book I was editing was about personal transformation for corporate managers. The author was a well-known coach. The language was so...

On a hot afternoon many years ago, a trainee editor walked in with furrowed brow and deposited the following offending sentence in my...

This is a wonderful story from the People's Archive of Rural India about a bookseller who cannot read. Selling books is not just a trade...

This email from Better World Books is the most creative letter I've ever received. I was smiling from ear to ear by the time I got to the...

In a previous post (on researcher name coincidences), I mentioned Indian and British English: A Handbook of Usage and Pronunciation by...

Humor and academia are an unlikely combination, and I didn't think they could coexist until I read Academia Obscura: The Hidden Silly...