PRESS RELEASE Frog Books launches Urban Voices, two other books
Mumbai, 1 November 2003: Frog Books, a Mumbai-based publishing house, has released three books: Urban Voices � Essays from the Indian Subcontinent, edited by Sunil K Poolani; Under a Quicksilver Moon, a poetry collection by Abhilash Warrier; and A New Friend, a novella by Spanish writer and painter Nacho Blanco. At a well-attended function at the Press Club, Mumbai, the books were launched by Nikhil Wagle, eminent journalist and editor of Mahanagar. Krishna Raj, editor of The Economic and Political Weekly and a BD Goenka Award-winner, accepted the first copies. In his inaugural address, Wagle spoke about how small publishing houses are breaking new grounds. �In this context what Frog Books has achieved in this short span of time of its existence is commendable. Frog Books� is a bold initiative � to promote news voices, new talent.� Urban Voices has contributions from Ramachandra Guha, Dilip Chitre, Dilip D�Souza, Aakar Patel, V Gangadhar, Margaret Mascarenhas, Aditha Dissanayake, Rohit Gupta, Rehan Ansari, Kiron Kasbekar, Meena Menon, Sevanti Ninan, Frederick Noronha, Dilip Raote, Kalpish Ratna, C P Surendran and Suma Varughese. Two of the writers in the volume � Dilip D�Souza and Rohit Gupta � read out from their contributions from the book, which was followed by a poetry reading by Abhilash Warrier, a debutante. Those who attended the meet included former bureaucrat J B D�Souza, writer and columnist Dilip Raote, American writer Janet Fine and journalist and writer Derek Bose. The event was compeered by senior journalist Harish Nambiar. Sunil K Poolani, the publisher of Frog Books, gave the vote of thanks. For copies and other information, please contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0091 9820925335 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree ########################################################################## # Send submissions for Goanet to [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # PLEASE remember to stay on-topic (related to Goa), and avoid top-posts # # More details on Goanet at http://joingoanet.shorturl.com/ # # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ##########################################################################
