 The
Book Review TBR
Book Club
From The Litracy trust:
Founder Trustees
CHANDRACHARI, UMA IYENGAR, CHITRA
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;
- 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
publication;
- undertaking publication, sale and distribution of books;
- running freelance or syndicated columns in newspapers, magazines
and the like.
| Seminars: |
| JANUARY 1993 |
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Big Dams and Displaced People |
| AUGUST 1993 |
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Women Writing in India-From the 6th Century BC to the Present |
| FEBRUARY 1995 |
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The Role of Critical Reviews |
| FEBRUARY 1996 |
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Reviewing and the Publishing Industry |
| SEPTEMBER 1996 |
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Subversive Sites: Women's Engagements with the Law |
| OCTOBER 1996 |
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Anuvad-Linking Literatures |
| NOVEMBER 1997 |
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Role of Critical Reviews-A Dialogue with Robert Silvers
and Rea Hederman. |
| Lectures: |
| NOVEMBER 1996 |
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Toward Freedom and Beyond - by Nikhil Chakravartty |
| NOVEMFBER 1997 |
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A Small Craft Industry: Reflections on Reviewing - by
Barbara Epstein |
| MARCH 1997 |
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On Biographies and Kings - by Romila Thapar |
| AUGUST 1999 |
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Development As Freedom - by Amartya Sen |
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(First Nikhil Chakravartty Memorial Lecture) |
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| Book Subsidy
Programme |
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The Trust has from 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.
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| Focus on
Indian Language Writing |
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The Trust has consistently sought to promote books
published in the Indian languages 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.
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| Translations
Project |
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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.
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The Book Review Literary
Trust is a non-political, ideologically non-partisan
organization and seeks to encourage and reflect all shades of intellectual
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 therefore 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.
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