Indian trade publishing has grown enormously in a single generation, and Om Books International sits within it as a New Delhi house with a broad general list. It publishes for a wide readership rather than a narrow niche, with children’s titles and illustrated editions prominent among the work that travels furthest.
Publishing in India means publishing across languages and traditions at once, for readers who may meet a story first in English and already know it in another tongue entirely. Retellings drawn from the epics sit comfortably beside picture books and contemporary non-fiction, and that mixture reads as normal rather than eclectic to anyone who knows the market.
Audio is a natural extension of that inheritance. Many of these stories lived as spoken performance for centuries before they were ever printed, and a recording returns them to something close to their original condition.
