Women’s Art of the Everyday
A Workshop Exploring Indian Floor Patterns All over India, there are enduring traditions of women decorating the threshold of their homes with decorative patterns. Known by different names in various...
View ArticleIn Memory of Ganesh Jogi
Ganesh Jogi, musician and artist from Rajasthan-Gujarat, is no more. We met him and his wife Teju Behan in February 2010, and invited them to sing and draw for us. Ganesh died at the age of 72, while...
View ArticleSita’s Ramayana: The Many Lives of a Text
In the aftermath of Delhi University’s decision to ban A K Ramanujan’s essay discussing disparate versions of The Ramayana, Tara publisher V.Geetha reflects upon the many lives of the text, and in...
View ArticleA Book Trail in Mexico
I was invited to the Guadalajara book fair, recently, on a publisher’s fellowship. Afterwards, my travels around Mexico took me to the state of Chiapas, to visit an extraordinary book making...
View ArticleA Designer’s Journey: I Saw a Peacock with a Fiery Tail
Tara’s outgoing resident designer Jonathan Yamakami reflects upon the creative journey he embarked upon when working on ‘I Saw a Peacock with a Fiery Tail’. A 17th century English ‘trick’ poem, Tara’s...
View ArticleWaterlife: a Fluid Tradition
Earlier this year Mithila art expert and enthusiast Peter Zirnis visited India’s Madhubani region. There he met with a range of artists working in what can broadly be defined as the Mithila style of...
View ArticleCollaborative Nonsense
An Interview with Anushka Ravishankar On the fifteenth anniversary of the publication of her first book, India’s acclaimed nonsense poet Anushka Ravishankar talks to the team at Tara Books about the...
View ArticleAn Ocean of Art: The Bologna Illustrators’ Annual 2013
In January, Tara publisher Gita Wolf was invited to be part of the jury to select entries for the prestigious Bologna Illustrators’ Annual for 2013. The selected illustrators were announced at the...
View ArticleNothing is Impossible
Tara Books and the making of a book by hand From her studio Minus 9 Design, Rathna Ramanathan has worked with Tara Books on projects over the last sixteen years. Here, she reflects on her experiences...
View ArticleFollowing Her Paint Brush
Colourful and vibrant yet extremely delicate, Mithila art is primarily done by women living in small rural communities in the state of Bihar in eastern India. Writer Abhishek Choudhary recently visited...
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