Lifi Publications

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Lifi Publications is a Literary Fiction segment of DK Agencies, publishing historical novels, political potboilers, social and romantic novels, feminist writings, crime and detective stories, adventure, fantasy and horror tales. [1] [2] [3]

Contents

Authors

  1. Kulpreet Yadav (India Unlimited - A Nation Caught Between Hype & Hope) [3]
  2. Ritu Lalit (His Father's Mistress)
  3. Charuhasan
  4. Ramkumar Mukhopadhyay
  5. Debalina Haldar (Wrinkles in Memory) [4]
  6. Neelam Saxena Chandra [5]
  7. Divyasha Girish [6]
  8. Sudha Subramanian [7]
  9. Neela Senthil (An Endless Refuge) [8]
  10. Anuradha Vijayakrishnan (Seeing the Girl) [9] [10]
  11. KK Kharlukhi (Tears of the Nymph) [11]
  12. Priyanka Bharadwaj (Red is for Love, Black is for Kohl) [12]
  13. Shah Alam Khan (Man with the white beard) [13]
  14. Jahid Akhtar (Story of Tulbu) [14]

Controversy

One of the authors of Lifi Publications - Anvita Bajpai - claimed that Chetan Bhagat's book One Indian Girl was adopted from her short story in a book called Life, odds and ends. [15] [16] [17] [18]

International Book Fairs

Awards

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References

  1. ↑ "New Titles from Life @ NDWBF 15 (Page 16)" (PDF).
  2. ↑ "London Book Fair".
  3. 1 2 "A Publisher for All Seasons". The Hindu. 2013-02-04. ISSN   0971-751X . Retrieved 2018-05-24.
  4. ↑ "IIM-Lucknow graduate makes the 'write' choice". Hindustan Times. 2016-08-08. Retrieved 2018-06-24.
  5. ↑ "Reflections & Conversations | New Delhi World Book Fair (6-14 January 2018)". newdelhiworldbookfair.gov.in. Retrieved 2018-06-24.
  6. ↑ "This 22 Year-Old Author's Book Is Being Promoted by the Govt of India in 200 Countries!". The Better India. 2016-11-25. Retrieved 2018-06-24.
  7. ↑ Newstoday (May 3, 2018). "A book that retrospects back to the childhood - News Today". News Today. Retrieved 2018-06-24.
  8. ↑ "Book review: Featherlike touch silhouettes agony of Sri Lankan Tamil refugees". deccanchronicle.com/. 2016-06-06. Retrieved 2018-06-24.
  9. ↑ Gokulan, Dhanusha. "Anuradha Vijayakrishanan: The accidental novelist from Dubai". khaleejtimes.com. Retrieved 2018-06-24.
  10. ↑ "The reluctant novelist Anuradha Vijayakrishnan" . Retrieved 2018-06-24.
  11. ↑ "Novel by Khasi author released at Kolkata Book Fair". The Shillong Times. Retrieved 2018-06-24.
  12. ↑ Zavialova, Maria (2015), "Red Venus: Alexandra Kollontai's Red Love and Women in Soviet Art", Red Love Across the Pacific, Palgrave Macmillan US, pp. 221–231, doi:10.1057/9781137507037_12, ISBN   9781349570799
  13. ↑ "Chetan Bhagat Accused of Plagiarism, Book Sales Stayed by Court". The Quint. Retrieved 2018-06-24.
  14. ↑ indiainfoline.com. "Story of Tublu" . Retrieved 2018-06-24.
  15. ↑ Scroll Staff. "Sales of Chetan Bhagat's 'One Indian Girl' stopped by injunction, on plagiarism charges". Scroll.in. Retrieved 2018-06-24.
  16. ↑ "War of Words". The Indian Express. 2017-04-26. Retrieved 2018-06-24.
  17. ↑ ScoopWhoop (2017-04-25). "Meet Anvita Bajpai, The Woman Who Is Suing Chetan Bhagat For Plagiarism". ScoopWhoop. Retrieved 2018-06-24.
  18. ↑ ""One Indian Girl nothing but a copy of Drawing Parallels", alleges Bengaluru author". deccanchronicle.com. 2017-04-26. Retrieved 2018-05-24.
  19. ↑ "London Book Fair begins". printweek.in. 2014-04-09. Retrieved 2018-06-24.
  20. 1 2 "Indian Vernacular Pulp Fiction in English Translation", Consumable Texts in Contemporary India, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, doi:10.1057/9781137489296.0006, ISBN   9781137489296
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