Om Books celebrates visual literature

Om Books International is pleased to get on board award-winning film director, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra to The Hindu Lit for Life. A three-day, two city conclave to appreciate the role of literature in our lives begins on September 25, 2011 in New Delhi, and will see the grand finale in Chennai on October 29 and 30 with the announcement of the winner of The Hindu Literary Prize for Best Fiction 2011.

Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra will be in conversation with one of the finest authors, journalists and bloggers of our times, Jai Arjun Singh on 'New Wave Cinema' and Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra's contribution to Indian cinema on September 25, 2011 between 12:30-1:20 PM.

Ajay Mago, publisher, Om Books International, says, "It is my privilege to be associated with The Hindu Lit for Life where one gets to know and understand the kind of writing talent we have in India. In this age of globalization, India has produced world-class writers across all genres. Cinema holds a very special place in my heart and I am equally delighted to get on board Mr. Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra to deliberate on the new trends of cinema and his contribution to Indian cinema."

Riya Travel & Tours, one of India's leading travel organizations and Audi, Gurgaon, a brand that's synonymous with automobiles are co-sponsors for the session on New Wave Cinema.

Hindi Lessons for Tintin

The Tintin comic series is finally being translated into Hindi

“A Big Bag of Blue Blistering Barnacles,” thundered an infuriated Captain Haddock in the Tintin comic series. But that was before he learnt a lesson in Hindi. From now, he will vent his fury by shouting, “Karor Karoro kale kasmasate kachuye.” For Tintin has now come to India, talking in Hindi and exclaiming, not “Great Snakes”, but “Baal ki Khaal” and “Shaitan Ke Kaan”.

After decades of talking in English and 50 other languages globally, Belgian artist Georges Remi or Hergé’s popular comic book series is being translated into Hindi.

Delhi-based publishing house Om Books is introducing the young reporter in Hindi after getting permission from Casterman — the original publishers of the comic series.

Full report here Indian Express

Tintin in India

The last time Tintin and his friends were confronted with Hindi, they looked pretty baffled. In Tintin in Tibet, published in 1960, Captain Haddock faced the wrath of a Nepali porter whom he bumped into accidently in the street. “Kya dekhte nahi ho?” the man yells in a rebuke rendered in Devnagari. However, the next time Haddock in confronted by an angry coolie, he’ll have developed the vocabulary necessary to snap back at him. Only, instead of barking, “billions and billions of blistering blue barnacles”, he’s likely to holler, “Karodon karod kasmasate kaale kachhuve” – millions and millions of squirming black turtles.

That alliterative phrase will make its debut this month when Om Publishers releases eight Tintin books in Hindi. To begin with, Hindi readers will be able to savour the boy reporter’s adventures in Tintin in the Congo, Tintin in America, Cigars of the Pharoah, The Blue Lotus, The Broken Ear, The Black Island, King Ottokar’s Sceptre and The Crab with the Golden Claws. The remaining 16 comics in the series will come on the stands at the rate of two every two months. “I have always been a fan of Tintin,” said Ajay Mago of Om Publishers. “We wanted to bring this comic to the people of India who couldn’t possibly have read it before as it was in English.”

Full report here Timeout Mumbai