Pramod Kapoor
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Pramod Kapoor | |
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| Born | 1953 (age 71–72) Kolkata, West Bengal, India |
| Education | Banaras Hindu University |
| Occupation(s) | Publisher, author |
| Known for | Founder of Roli Books |
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Pramod Kapoor (born 1953) is an Indian writer and publisher, who in 1978 founded Roli Books, a publishing company that prints books pertaining to Indian heritage. In 2016, for his contributions to publishing, he was awarded the Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur.
The first book he authored, Gandhi: An Illustrated Biography, was published in 2016. It led him to write 1946 Royal Indian Navy Mutiny; Last War of Independence, released in 2022. Previously he had produced illustrated versions of Khushwant Singh's Train to Pakistan and Manohar Malgonkar's The Men Who Killed Gandhi. He compiled the photographs of photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White in one of her biographies, picked several previously unpublished images from Britain to be included in New Delhi: The Making of a Capital (2009), and photo-edited the 'past' section of Calcutta Then – Kolkata Now (2019).
Pramod Kapoor was born in 1953 in Jorasanko, Kolkata district of India, into a family associated with the distribution of paper in Uttar Pradesh.[1] He was inspired at the age of ten when in 1963, he saw a portrait of Allen Lane, the founder of Penguin Books.[2] He studied at the Banaras Hindu University.[3] During his college years he worked for his brother, who owned a printing press.[1]
Career
After working in Delhi with Macmillan Publishers for two and half years, he founded Roli Books in 1978, initially to publish illustrated books, the first being one on Rajasthan.[4] The business is family run; Kapoor works alongside his wife Kiran, son Kapil and daughter Priya.[4] In 2014, he acquired India Ink imprint for fiction.[4] Other imprints include Lustre Press for illustrated books, and the Lotus Collection for biographies, non-illustrated non-fiction books.[5]
Awards
In 2016, for his contributions to publishing and to promoting India's heritage, he was awarded the Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur, presented by François Richier.[6]