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Jadavpur University Press
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The publishing arm of Jadavpur University, Kolkata. #jupress
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We are delighted to announce that the iconic Mayday Bookstore in Delhi is stocking all our English-language titles. They are the first bookstore in Delhi who will be displaying our entire English-language catalogue.
Image courtesy LBB.
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We are thrilled to announce Trinankur Banerjee's cover for 'Merleau-Ponty' has just won the best 'Book Cover of the Year (Indian Languages)' category in the Publishing Next awards, announced in New Delhi earlier today. Our heartiest congratulations to Trinankur!
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After a gap of three years, JUP will be back at the New Delhi World Book Fair. Do turn up and spread the word.
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Thrilled that two of our titles, Biplab Prashange, second in a series of Sartre’s works in Bengali , and Magadh by Shrikant Verma are in the longlist of the Oxford Bookstore Book Cover Prize. Congratulations to the designers, Trinankur Banerjee @trinankur and Rochishnu Sanyal!
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'And everyone here knows her':
Arvind Krishna Merhotra's evocative poem on readers at the Bharati Bhavan Library, among them a young Francesca Orsini.
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Few have shaped our understanding of Hindi and North Indian literary cultures like Francesca Orsini. To know she’s been denied entry into the country she’s written about with such love and rigour feels deeply wrong.
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Francesca Orsini's scholarship has greatly enriched Hindi literary studies and history of the book in India. She is a renowned scholar published worldwide in English and in Hindi. She has just been denied entry into India, with no reason given.
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Francesca Orsini has done more for Hindi than many so called lovers of Hindi. To not allow entry to a true lover of languages and literatures of this region, someone who has always told its stories with care, is deeply concerning and heartbreaking.
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Few have shaped our understanding of Hindi and North Indian literary cultures like Francesca Orsini. To know she’s been denied entry into the country she’s written about with such love and rigour feels deeply wrong.
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3. Encounters with Allen Ginsberg and other icons of the counterculture movement underlined cross-cultural commonalties of rebellion against the mainstream and conventional.
‘Transgression in the Bengali Avant-garde: The poetry of the Hungry Generation’ by Daniela Cappello
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2. Not being the sort of minds that pulled punches, they said it was a response to the need for “a violent and somnambulistic jazzing of the hymning five, a sowing of the tempestual hunger”. They were charged, and sentenced for obscenity in 1964.
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1. In 1960s Bengal, a cohort of rebellious young middle-class Bengalis became known as the Hungry Generation. They heralded a movement that so challenged conventional writing that it announced the death of old-school forms and styles of Bengali poetry.
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See this Instagram post by @cafethetwins19 instagram.com/p/DNBBD2zvgA1/…
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'The Dragon's Heart: World Poetry in Translation' is reviewed in 'The Book Review' of September 2025 by Simran Chadha.
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JUP titles now available at Cafe THE TWINS in Siliguri!
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Featuring some of our titles to celebrate Women in Translation month!
Video courtesy: Jadavpur University Women's Conclave
#readtranslations #womenintranslation #August #publishing
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