Post Script
A house where ideas become books, and books become knowledge.
The ten rooms of the House of Publishing
The house
Room I — Editorial
- IEditorialWhere a manuscript is first read.
- IITypesettingWhere a sentence takes its final form.
- IIIPrintingWhere ink meets paper.
- IVBindingWhere pages become an object.
- VThe LibraryWhere every book finds an imprint.
- VIThe ArchiveWhere the catalogue is preserved.
- VIIResearchWhere a book yields knowledge.
- VIIIJournalsWhere scholarship compounds.
- IXInstitutional PublishingWhere books meet institutions.
- XThe Future of KnowledgeWhere the house is looking a century ahead.
Manifesto
Post Script has decided the printed word deserves the same care in the twenty-first century that it received in the nineteenth.
We publish scholarship, philosophy, design and children’s literature from New Delhi. Every title earns its place on the list by reading well a decade from now, not a season from now.
Four chapters this week
The editor’s selection from the ten rooms.
Room I
Editorial
Books arrive on the editor’s desk long before they arrive on shelves. Every manuscript is read at least twice — once for its argument, once for its patience.
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Room V
The Library
Fourteen shelves, one house. Every imprint has its own editor, its own design language, its own reader — the house is the wall between them.
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Room VII
Research
The Reading Room follows the Archive. Once a book is preserved, the next question is what it means alongside the other books on the shelf.
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Room X
The Future of Knowledge
Every hundred years, publishing forgets what it is and learns it again. This is the room where the house looks at its own next century.
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A quiet scholar in the margin
Publishing is the discipline of choosing which sentences deserve to outlive their author’s second draft. Everything else — paper, binding, cover, index — is the argument that this sentence was chosen for a reason.
Colophon of the house
Printed and published from New Delhi. Set in Fraunces for headings and Inter for text. Devanagari in Noto Serif Devanagari.
Applying to indexing and DOI. First journal in 2028. Every number on this page derives from the catalogue at build time; nothing is rounded, nothing is fabricated.
- Titles
- 1,414
- Authors
- 557
- Imprints
- 14
- Series
- 67
- Languages
- 3
- First list
- 1414
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