The Bombay Duck Press is the indie publishing imprint of The Tartan Turban Secret Readings. Our goal: to bring South Asia’s greatest literature to Canada by publishing it in Canada.
Every year, we will publish a very small catalogue of beautiful books in digital and printed formats. Books from or about the lands of our origins. Books that sing the poems we have in us. Books that tell the stories that sound like us, the stories we long for.
We will be especially careful to always include marginalized voices—stories and poems told by women or Dalit writers or by those of minority faiths.
At the same time, we will not fall into the trap of the single story. To ensure we are not trapped in front of a mirror examining our vanities or our warts, we will include views of the subcontinent and its culture as seen through other lenses—writers such as Xuanzang, Camoes or Babur.
In addition, we hope to collect and publish selected works from the readings in an anthology.
The Tartan Turban Secret Readings 