From the workshop
Why Naimisha
The imprint is named for a forest — the one where the Bhagavata was recited.
Naimisha is a forest. Naimisharanya, in the old geography, is the place where the sages gathered for a long sacrifice, and where Suta — Ugrashrava, the son of Romaharshana — recited the Srimad Bhagavata to Shaunaka and the assembled rishis.
The Bhagavata’s own first skandha opens there. Before any story is told, someone has to be listening, and Naimisha is where the listening happened.
That is the whole reason for the name. We are not the author of these books; Ved Vyasa is. We are not the reciter either. We are the clearing in the forest where the telling can take place — the ground, the light, and the quiet.
An imprint should know its size. Ours is that of a place, not a person.
So: Naimisha Press. A forest where a very old story was heard properly for the first time, and a small publisher hoping it can be heard properly again — in Hindi, in Marathi, and in English.
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The holding page
What was on naimishapress.com before there was a book on it, and why we kept it short.
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In the Mahatmya, Bhakti is young and her sons — knowledge and detachment — are old and will not wake. A reading for anyone whose attention has worn thin.
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