Bhaiya Helpers Quotes

“I was determined that The God of Small Things should be pub-lished in India frst. But within those few months, Pankaj Mishra had given up his job at HarperCollins and more or less moved to London. Most publishing houses in India at that time produced badly designed, shoddy books. Terrible covers, terrible paper, terrible copy- editing. I found it painful, disrespectful. Friends of mine, Tarun Tejpal and Sanjeev Saith, got together and started a publishing company called India Ink. I was at the printing press the day the frst copies rolled out. I could hardly breathe. To see copies of your frst book, piled up in towers –  it ’s an experience that ’s hard to match.
Readings were planned in Delhi, Bombay, Calcutta, Madras and Kottayam. Stuart Proftt, my publisher from the UK, and David Godwin few in to be a part of the excitement. There were all kinds of reviews. People hated it, loved it, mocked it,”
― Arundhati Roy, Mother Mary Comes to Me