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From The Litracy trust:
Founder Trustees
CHANDRACHARI, UMA IYENGAR, CHRA NARAYANAN


The main purpose and objective of this Trust set up in October 1989 is to disseminate and spread amongst the public information about advances in knowledge and books, for which the Trust undertakes activities including:

  • publication of the monthly magazine The Book Review;li>
  • the running of such other magazines/publications;
  • organizing exhibitions of books;
  • organizing seminars on themes of relevance to the objectives of the Trust;
  • providing financial assistance for publishers to publish seminal works in several disciplines at subsidized prices;
  • awarding scholarships, prizes for meritorious research and publicatn;
  • undertaking publication, sale and distribution of books;
  • running freelance or syndicated columns in newspapers, magazines and the like.
tr valign="top"> MARCH 1997
Seminars:
Big Dams and Displaced People
AUGUST 1993 : Women Writing in India-From the 6th Century BC to the Present
FEBRUARY 1995 : The Role of Crital Reviews
FEBRUARY 1996 : Reviewing and the Publishing Industry
SEPTEMBER 1996 : Subversive Sites: Women's Engagements with the Law
OCTOBER 96 : Anuvad-Linking Literatures
NOVEMBER 1997 : Role of Critical Reviews-A Dialogue with Robert Silvers and Rea Hederman.
Lectures:
NOVEMBER 1996 : Toward Freedom and Beyond - by Nikhil Chakravartty
NOVEMFBER 1997 : A Small Craft Industry: Reflections on Reviewing - by Barbara Epstein
: On Biographies and Kings - by Romila Thapar
AUGUST 1999 : Development As Freedom - by Amartya Sen
    (First Niil Chakravartty Memorial Lecture)


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Book Subsidy Programme
The Trust hasrom 1991-1995 administered a grant from the Ford Foundation to subsidize important Indian publications in the areas of environment, contemporary history and politics, women studies and international affairs. The Trust negotiates with publishers to reduce the jacket price in real terms and put it within the reach of students and scholars. Over sixty titles have been subsidized so far. The Trust is continuing the subsidy programme with the interest from the corpus.
 
Focus on Indian Language Writing
The Trust has consistently sought to promote books published in the Indian languas through critical reviews in English. Several special issues of the journal have ben devoted to focussing on one language each.
The Trust proposes to set up an Indian Language Centre-cum-Databank to promote a greater awareness of works being published in various states and facilitate translation activity to make it a bridge linking the various facets of our rich literary heritage.
 
Translations Project
Scholars, particularly historians are acutely aware of the need to tap indigenous material for research. They are constantly ' bemoaning the fact that if something is not done soon, valuable tracts may get lost forever. The Book Review Literary Trust proposes to embark upon a Translations Project to cover important tracts and treatises from the ancient and medieval periods, with special emphasis on Sanskrit, Urdu and Persian texts to facilitate research.
 
The Book Review Literary Trust is a non-political, ideologically non-partisan organization and seeks to encourage and reflect all shades of tellectual opinions and ideas.

A public charitable Trust built up by a small group of literary minded people with meagre financial resources, the TBRLT needs all the goodwill and support it can obtain from like-minded individuals and institutions to continue and expand its activities.

Being a non-commercial organization in its constitution and temperament, we are therefe engaged in an all-out effort to upgrade our corpus of funds and welcome all contributions big and small that would help us achieve our objectives. Given the goodwill and reputation already established by the Trust all it requires is the right financial fillip. The donations to the corpus funds are eligible for Relief u/s 80G of the Income Tax Act 1961.