Richard Charkin, Chief Executive Officer of Macmillan, the publishers, has an interesting August 15 post on Macmillan’s association with India:

I’ve been visiting India for twenty-five years, always (apart from the occasional day or two by the beach) on publishing business. My first visit was to the Delhi offices of Oxford University Press India in Ansari Road where they (and just down the road the editorial offices of the educational and higher education divisions of Macmillan India) are still situated. My principal memory of that first visit was the large number of typists in the office. It was apparently cheaper to create file copies by retyping letters than by using carbon paper. Remember carbon paper?

Don’t forget to check an early twentieth century photograph of a Macmillan General Manager at ‘work’ (in the same post). I found the few pages I sifted through very interesting to read- it offers both history and news.