Pub Date : 2022-12-29DOI: 10.1163/18784712-03104045
Smit Zaveri
Pratham Books is a not-for-profit children’s picture book publisher headquartered in Bangalore, India, with a mission to see ‘a book in every child’s hand’. Pratham Books has been addressing the book famine in India and by extension the world through its low-cost, high-volume, multilingual publishing since 2004. But upon realizing the limitations of print, they moved towards something more audacious – adopting an open licence to create an innovative digital platform, StoryWeaver, that not only housed Pratham Books’ titles but empowered users to use, adapt, download, and translate books as they saw fit to address the gaps in their own spheres and help put books in children’s hands. In just seven years, StoryWeaver has grown 50 times in size and scope, from a repository of 800 books in 24 languages to over 45 000 books in 314 languages. By disrupting traditional publishing models, Pratham Books’ StoryWeaver has shown us what the future of publishing and reading looks like.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-29DOI: 10.1163/18784712-03104041
P. Kapoor
Roli Books was set up in 1978 and tasted early success by bringing affordable, full-colour primary school textbooks to India. But the founder, Pramod Kapoor, followed through on his dream of creating indigenous, high-quality illustrated books for India, convinced that combining the content and editorial skills available in the country with international quality printing would be a winning proposition. Roli kept scaling up and expanded to multiple overseas markets while dealing with Indian policy challenges such as restrictions on third-country exports and the cap on book imports. After a challenging period in the late eighties and early nineties, Roli found success once again, buoyed by India’s economic liberalisation and the lifting of import restrictions. Since the late 2000s, Roli has invested in its domestic publishing programme, physical retail space, and annual exhibitions to build the brand. The next generation of the family continues to nurture and grow the company.
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The surviving royal inscriptions from ancient Elam (in the south and southwest of modern Iran) speak of two historical characters who occupy particular positions outside physical time. These are Šilhaha (probably active in the early nineteenth century BC) and Princess Bar-Uli (in the second half of the twelfth century BC). Šilhaha became a prominent figure in Elamite history. His position is known through a legitimizing formula used by several subsequent rulers who claimed to be the ‘son of Šilhaha’s sister’. Thus, Šilhaha became a sempiternal being as his metaphysical existence was necessary for all the future kings who would make such a claim. However, his temporal mode of being changed from sempiternal to omnitemporal when he appeared in a curse formulated in the late twelfth century BC. In this curse, Šilhaha occupies a divine position. To appear in such a position means that his metaphysical existence would become necessary for the future both within and outside physical time. As for B/Par-Uli, she is called the ‘beloved daughter’ and ‘salvation’ of King Šilhak-Inšušinak I (conventionally 1150-1120 BC). Being her father’s ‘salvation’ denotes her role in this world and the hereafter. Moreover, her image, engraved in a mirror-like scene on a chalcedony bead, further emphasises her position and role. Drawing on the terms ‘temporal’, ‘sempiternal’ and ‘omnitemporal’, this paper examines the textual contexts to see how the shift in the temporal modes of being occurred. In the end, the image on the chalcedony bead will be briefly discussed.
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{"title":"Religinis terorizmas: dėl religijos ar religijos vardu?","authors":"Agnietė Žotkevičiūtė-Banevičienė","doi":"10.24101/logos.2022.51","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24101/logos.2022.51","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81888,"journal":{"name":"Logos (Santa Clara, Calif.)","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84249609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Scholastinė logika Lietuvoje: eklektizmas ir santykis su Renesanso ir naujųjų amžių filosofija ir logika","authors":"Vytis Valatka","doi":"10.24101/logos.2022.48","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24101/logos.2022.48","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81888,"journal":{"name":"Logos (Santa Clara, Calif.)","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73323017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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