Banyan Tree Books

Banyan Tree Books

India, worlds cordially accepted spiritual guru, an oldest continuous civilization, land of some greatest minds, have also inherited wonderful literary masterpieces, from thoughtful spiritual quest books to enchanting hymns of Vedas and from local mythical stories to huge epics. As a publisher it’s a great legacy to follow and Banyan Tree Books is our gracious effort to brush up our deep-rooted lingual variety and cultural treasures even more. We feel the need of giving India’s litteartur a helping gesture and flaunt its glory all over. Our effort here is to use English language for this literary journey, since modern English has been our window to the world. This is also to vaporize our regional masterpieces in English. In this house we shall attempt to get at least three great books of Hindi and other languages translated into English because our aim is to value literature of every language and provide it for all. The task of getting our literary pearls publish into English by publishing houses in England or America becomes insurmountable as they are not aware of the original text. To add this explanation journey bit more severity with arrogance of such publishers, wherein they tend to decide fate of books and label them what is good and what is not. Many of European languages surprisingly, are also suffering the same intricacy; so this could be a fresh new breath for English work not only for English in original but works translated form from other language masterpieces. We will provide all European literary geniuses in English who were limited to their respective languages and still shining like stars, there are limitless world beyond English writing and it needed to be translated into English to make this language more colorful. Banyan Tree Book will respect them with sincerity and will enter in grand manner with some great works from all over. Not to forget that it has a backing of Rajkamal Prakashan Group, a house of literary excellence and richness from 1947. Banyan Tree Books launched its first publication ‘Honour Bound’ noted Irish authour Lara Harte on 23rd April 2007 in Dublin, Ireland, celebrating Irish rebellion against British rule. The book was launched at famous Writers’ Centre in Dublin and was presided over by Mr. Pat Rabbitte, leader of Labour Party in Ireland.

Lokbharti Prakashan

Lokbharti Prakashan

Lokbharti Prakashan was established in 1954, the period was after independence transformation where Allahabad’s literary-cultural sphere was going through rough phase; more because regardless of grand success of Parimal and Nai Kavita, young poets were still looking towards Delhi and Mumbai literary sky. In that phase Lokbharti stood firm and carried forward not only the legacy of bharti-Bhandar and Bhargava Press but kept intact all prominent Chayavadi and Nai Kavita writers of that time. Great Niralaji, Pantji, all shown faith in Lokbharti Prakashan to publish their most valuable works. Mathili Sharan Gupta, Mahadevi Verma, Yashpal, Ram Swaroop Chaturvedi, Ila Chandra Joshi, Sri Naresh Mehta, all were associated and trusted Lokbharti Prakashan. Even later age great writers like Bhairava Prasad Gupt, Markandeya, Dudhnath Singh, Ravindra Kaliya and Mamata Kalia were among Lokbharti Prakashan’s notable writers. Lokbharti Prakashan always served for best of Hindi literature without even forgetting its social responsibilities; as publisher they always have given an anchoring hand to some great thinker-writers. Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia’s whole literary works and every work on his life is published with Lokbharti Prakashan, it is a great privilege in itself. Works of Kabir, Sur, Tulsi, Nanak, Bihari of Hindi Bhakti Kal and Reeti Kal are published with Lokbharti, among all Dr. Kishori Lal Gupta’s edited and compiled ‘Sampoorn Sur Sagar’ and Hindi-English complete ‘Ramcharitmanas’ is most commendable. Lokabharti, recently came out with a series of great writers like Jai Shankar Prasad, Mahadevi Verma, Ramdhari Singh ‘Dinkar’, Yahspal’s combined work in form of Sampoorna-Sahitya. Yashpal’s ‘Sampoorna Sahitya’ in 14 volumes is most privileged series of Lokbharti Prakashan. With that, Lokbharti also took utmost interest in Hindi as a language by publishing some great dictionaries and grammar books. Late Ramchandra Verma, Professor Hardev Bahri, Dr. Badrinath Kapoor like linguists have given some rare Hindi dictionaries and Hindi grammar books for Lokbharti Prakashan that can make any publishing house proud. Hindi and German linguist professor Helmut’s ‘Hindi Kriya Kosha’ is some great work in this series. Lokbharti merged with Hindi publication world’s most reputed group Rajkamal Prakashan in September 2005 and now moving forward successfully under capable guidance of its new and young Managing Director Mr. Amod Maheshwari. Lokbharti Prakashan. Best hopes for new leadership of this organisation; with Rajkamal Prakashan and Radhakrishan Prakashan this house will keep its decade old reputation shinning and touch new sky of success.

RadhaKrishan Prakashan

Radhakrishna Prakashan

Hindi publication world would always remember late Om Prakashji, who started Radhakrishna Prakashan, for his devotion to promote and establish new imaginative talents of literature. This publication house has always focused on its sole commitment towards relevant issues of society like women issues, backward-class conflict and other social causes, fostered such causes and gave voice to them in even in the period when Hindi literature was not familiar with woman empowerment and backward class conflict terms. Radhakrishna Prakashan in very early days of its stirred Hindi publication world with great works like Mery Tylor’s ‘Bharatiya Jailon Mein Panch Saal’, Mahashveta Devi’s ‘1084vein Ki Ma’ and Daya Pawar’s ‘Achhut’; these were some path breaking books in Hindi publication. Radhakrisan Prakshan is still attached to such issues and closely associated with great women writers of contemporary India and past. Mahadevi Verma, Mahashweta Devi, Manu Bhandari, Mrinal Pandey like well known writers have trusted Radhakrishna Prakshan to publish most of their important works. U. R. Anantmurthy, Girish Karnad, Gulzar’s translated works, Mohan Rakesh, Rajendra Yadav, Vijay Mohan Singh, Sudhir Pachauri like contemporary Indian writers always believed in Radhakrishna’s credibility as a publisher and proudly published their important work with this house. Nagarjun, Samsher, Trilochan, Kedarnath Singh, Kunwar Narayan, Vishnu Khare, Ashok Vajpeyi, Dudhnath Singh, Manglesh Dabral, Sudeep Banrjee, Gyanendrapati and Akhilesh like famous names of Hindi world; also young writers like Kumar Ambuj, Bodhisattava, Nilay Upadhyay, Sunder Chandra Thakur trusted on Radahkrishna and been published here. In 1988 Radhakrishna Prakshan came under the able management of Ashok Maheshwari after Sri Arvind Kumar, son of late Omprakashji. From then onwards this house is standing even more firmly in publishing world. After merging with Rajkamal Prakashan Group in 1994 and with Lokbharati Prakashan in 2005, the role of Radhakrishna Prakashan is broadened and significant. Variety in topics of books, social causes concerned with readers and range in facilitating writers of different kind are always taken high in this intellect valuing publication house. Radhakrishna Prakashan has always come out with all the literary ages and challenges of Hindi and will keep this legacy alive in future with grand success.

Rajkamal Prakashan

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 Sri 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.