Ghosh, the recipient of Jnanpith Award 2016 was speaking at the launch of eight Bengali language books by Oxford University Press (OUP) as part of its Indian language publishing programme.
"While I often hear that the number of readers of Bengali books is going down, I fail to understand how we find new publishers coming to the field and new titles coming out every year," Ghosh said yesterday.
OUP Director, Global Academic Publishing, Sugata Ghosh said with the launching of eight new Bengali titles, the publication house would now be able to reach out more to a greater number of readers.
"In the past, through our English publications, we could reach out to 10 per cent of the total Indian readers and now we think we can penetrate to other areas," he said.
Some of the books under the new programme include Indias Ancient Past by R S Sharma, Asoka and the Decline of the Mauryas by Romila Thapar and Indias Foreign Policy by Sumit Ganguly in Hindi and History of South India: From Prehistoric times to the Fall of Vijayanagar by Nilakanta Sastri, Democracy and Its Institutions by Andr Bteille, and Defining Moments in Bengal, 192047 by Sabyasachi Bhattacharya in Bengali.
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