Thursday, October 23, 2008

Great Books from Rajkamal Prakashan

Rajkamal Prakashan, leading house in Rajkamal Prakashan Group Pvt. Ltd. was established in 1947. Pursuing post independence literary vacuum and giving post Chayavadi ‘Nayi Kavita’ a lead were an achievement, ‘Nayi Kahaniyan’ literary movement strengthened during the period by ‘Nayi Kahaniya’ a magazine started by Rajkamal Prakashan. With that a landmark magazine ‘Alochana’ was given to Hindi World by Rajkamal Prakashan; soon it became a leading literary magazine of Hindi Intellects and critics.

Rajkamal Publication has set a high standard in publishing world in its 60 years old journey, kept no aspect untouched and included every subject in its catalogue. Its a house celebrating every writing legends name with it; great Suryakant Tripathi Nirala, Hazari Prasad Dwivedi, Ramvilas Sharma, Phanishwarnath Renu, Bhagwati Charan Varma, Sumitranandan Pant, Namwar Singh, Bhisham Sahni, Rahi Masoom Raza, Krishna Sobti, Harishankar Parsai, Srilal Shukla, Kuwar Narayan, Ashok Vajpeyi have chosen Rajkamal Prakahan to publish almost all their significant works, we are flaunting about this achievement proudly. We also have with us Muktibodh, Shamsher, Nagarjun, Raghuvir Sahay, Shiva Mangal Singh ‘Suman’, Kedar Nath Singh, Leeladhar Jagudi, Vinod Kumar Shukla, Mohan Rakesh, Rajkamal Chaudhari, Manohar Shyam Joshi, Usha Priyamvada, Jagdish Chandra, Amarkant, Krishan Baldev Vaid, Maitreyi Pushpa, Giriraj Kishor, Chandrakanta, Rajee Seth, Asghar Wazahat, Abdul Bismillah, Nand Dulare Vajpeyi, Vishwanath Tripathi, Parmanand Shrivastava, Nand Kishore Nawal, Devendra Raj Ankur, Ramkumar Verma, Swadesh Deepak, Rajendra Yadav, Mannu Bhandari, its our privilege that almost every great contemporary writer started their writing journey with Rajkamal Prakashan.

In 80’s Rajkamal Prakashan started series of great writers work as ‘Rachanavaliyan’; noted critic Nemichandra Jain edited Muktibodh Rachnavali; by now we have Suryakant Tripathi ‘Nirala’, Sumitra Nandan Pant, Phanishwar Nath Renu, Raghuvir Sahay, Harishankar Parsai, Srikant Verma, Harivansh Rai Bachchan, and Nagarjun Rachnavali in our catalogue.

World Classic series was also a great effort from Rajkamal Prakashan, in this series 30 classic writers of world have been translated in Hindi by now; because of this gracious effort many award winner books (Nobel and Booker prize winner) are available for Hindi readers.

New face of Hindi writing is among our next aim for future of Hindi world. We have always promoted new writers; we have line of new writers with us like Alok Dhanva, Rajesh Joshi, Geetanjali Shree, Alka Saraohgi, Viren Dangwal, Ekant Srivastava, Anita Verma, Awdhesh Preet, Bhagwan Das Morwal, Mahua Manjhi and Anamika to take Hindi writing in new age.

Rajkamal Prakashan is a publisher dealing every subject with same interest; known for quality publications in the field of Literature, History, Politics, Sociology, Philosophy and Biography. Over the years, apart from publishing well known Indian and foreign authors. Gunakar Mule, Devi Prasad Chattopadhyaya, Prof. Ramsharan Sharma, Romila Thapar, M. N. Shrinivas, Amartya Sen, Shyama Charan Dubey, Purna Chandra Joshi, Prabhash Joshi, D. D. Kosambi, Irfan Habib, Harbans Mukhiya, Suniti Kumar Chatterjee, Asgar Ali Engineer, Krishan Kumar, Ramesh Bedi, Yateesh Agrwal are our very own respected writers.

In 1994 Mr. Ashok Maheshwari became Managing Director of Rajkamal Prakashan and then Radhakrishan Prakashan and now Lokbharati Prakashan teamed up in Rajkamal Prakashan Group, making it the largest publishing group of Hindi world, strengthened this group further in publishing record 200 titles each year.