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Meru Gokhale
@MeruGokhale
Building Editrix.ai. I'm an optimistic realist.
Formerly: Publisher, The Penguin Press Group | Penguin Random House India.
- "Women are expected to work like they don't have children and raise children as if they don't work." I heard this somewhere today, and it is so true. This is the perfect description of modern motherhood.
- The Penguin Annual Lecture is back in Delhi on 26 December, and this year's speaker is the hugely talented actor and superwoman @priyankachopra. Here's how you can register: penguinlecture.paperform.co
- The charming, beautiful, funny and utterly original Gita Mehta passed away last evening. She wrote many successful books like "Karma Cola', 'Raj' and my personal favourite, 'A River Sutra'. She was married to the iconic publisher Sonny Mehta. May she rest in love and light.
- Premchand was often called the greatest Hindi writer of the 20th century. He wrote close to 300 short stories. We published his short fiction in this gorgeous collection a few years ago. He was born on this day in 1880 in Lamhi, a village near Benares.
- Avinuo Kire is a writer and teacher from Nagaland. She teaches English at Kohima College. Her 'hypnotic' new novel 'Where the Cobbled Path Leads' is folk fantasy, interweaving fantasy fiction with Naga spirit stories and folklore. It'll be out on 18 July.
- Arundhati Roy holding the first ever copy of her first novel in 20 years: The Ministry of Utmost Happiness.
- In January we will publish what is set to be the most definitive, authoritative and comprehensive biography of Mirza Ghalib, the last great poet of the Mughal era. 'Ghalib: A Wilderness at My Doorstep' is written by the incomparable Mehr Afshan Farooqi.
- Thank you for your messages, letters and emails about the deeply painful loss of my brilliant, kind and wonderful husband @PatrickFrench. My family's deepest thanks to the tireless, compassionate and dedicated doctors and nurses in India and the UK who looked after Patrick, and
- Ramachandra Guha's monumental biography of Mahatma Gandhi just went to press. It is called "Gandhi: The Years that Changed the World" and will be out in September.
- Writing a novel? Thinking about these questions will make you a better writer of fiction, as I have learned from editing hundreds of books over the years.
- Jhumpa Lahiri has a new novel coming out after nearly a decade, and I am delighted to announce that we will be publishing it. Look at this gorgeous cover... indianexpress.com/article/books-…
- Sometimes we need to step back. I decided to grow hyacinths this year in memory of my husband, who loved them. When he was very ill, I had been reading Katherine May’s lovely, meditative book Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times. It transformed the way
