FAREWELL TO 2009!

With Christmas, New Year and Pongal all around the corner - we bid farewell to 2009 by offering a 30% discount (with free shipping in India) on all books and stationery till January 31st, 2010. Order here!

ART AND ARTISTS

Madhubani, from Bihar

We have featured Madhubani art before in I Like Cats and Beasts of India, but have never invited the artists over to Chennai for a workshop. We finally did, this time, and discovered an art form that is astonishingly vivid and rich. Among the visiting artists was Santosh Kumar Das, Director of the Mithila Art Institute and creator of the acclaimed Gujarat series of paintings...

Ianna Andréadis, from France

Ianna Andréadis, the Greek artist of our upcoming book Ssss: Snake Art and Allegory - co-published with the musée du quai Branly, Paris – visited us all the way from France to see the making of the book...

EVENTS

 
2009 was our thirteenth consecutive year at the Frankfurt Book Fair. China was the guest of honour this year, and  we look at Comics from China in our blog...

BOOK NEWS

Our latest handmade book Do! which features Warli art that is native to Western India, has been selected in the Bibliotecas Escolares y de Aula competition by the Govt. of Mexico - 90, 000 copies will be printed and distributed in every public school.

Read about the state of public education in India and Mexico on our blog...

CONNECT WITH US

We announced the launch of our blog, twitter and facebook page in the last newsletter. Since then we've received an overwhelming amount of interest and feedback from our friends in the internet community - thank you for your support!