PG CERTIFICATE COURSE IN EDITING AND PUBLISHING

Four-month self-financed Course

Apply by 28th November

PG CERTIFICATE COURSE IN EDITING AND PUBLISHING
(Four-month self-financed Course)

Navayana, award-winning publisher on anticaste issues, is facilitating the training of five dalits/adivasis through the PG Certificate Course in Editing and Publishing conducted by the School of Cultural Texts and Records (SCTR), Jadavpur University, Kolkata.

This four-month self-financed course, in its fourth year now, has had a successful rate of placement (75 percent) in the publishing industry. Navayana’s AVARNA program is a pioneering initiative towards ensuring editorial diversity in the publishing industry in India.

Dalit and adivasi applicants, below 35 years of age, must email their CVs along with a 300-word note on their interest in books and why they wish to pursue a career in publishing to avarna.navayana@gmail.com before 28 November 2008. Ten short-listed applicants have to appear for a screening test on 22 December 2008 in Kolkata. Candidates from outside Kolkata will be provided train fare (second class).

Candidates from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka are welcome to apply (visa and travel expenses will not be covered).


Five candidates, selected by SCTR for the Navayana Fellowship, will each receive a stipend of Rs 5,000 per month. Navayana will cover the course fees and make efforts to ensure the placement of successful candidates in publishing houses.

Course period: January–April 2009.

For more details www.navayana.org or editpub.blogspot.com

Applications can also be posted to Navayana, E-92, 2nd Floor, Saket, New Delhi–110017