Introduction and Simple Mechanics Hey there, For the last one month, I had been spending my weekends trying to develop a business card game which I hope to complete and make ready for play testing by end of year. Thought it best to document the progress for review purposes and for anyone who’d be interested in doing something similar. The idea: The idea is to create a publishing card game for 2-4 players. I figured that there are two approaches to this – either I create a game that emphasize on the functions and the day-to-day running of a publishing…

Penguin Random House hosted its ninth Penguin Annual Lecture at Stein Auditorium, India Habitat Centre on 14th December, 2015. The Penguin Annual Lecture series features some of the world’s most respected leaders, thinkers and writers, and builds on Penguin India’s commitment to bring the finest minds in the world in direct contact with Indian audiences. Over the years it has established itself as one of the most prestigious events on the literary calendar. Ruskin Bond delivered the lecture on The Joy of Writing.   On delivering the Penguin Annual Lecture for 2015, Ruskin Bond said: I have had a long…

My mother once told me trauma is like Lord of the Rings. You go through this crazy, life-altering thing that almost kills you (like, say, having to drop the one ring into Mount Doom), and that thing by definition cannot possibly be understood by someone who hasn’t gone through it. They can sympathize, sure, but they’ll never really know, and more than likely they’ll expect you to move on from the thing fairly quickly. But that’s not how it works. Some lucky people are like Sam. They can go straight home, get married, have a whole bunch of curly headed…

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