ABOUT US

RUMOUR BOOKS INDIA

Rumour Books India (RBI) is one of India’s youngest and leading independent publishing houses, and is the only independent English-language publisher from Upper North India to have a national presence. We are the official publisher of the Prime Minister of India’s—Narendra Modi—Mann Ki Baat.

Founded in 2012, we debuted on the national publishing scene with a collection of short stories titled ‘Mango Chutney’ by Harsh Snehanshu, followed by ‘Green Mango More’, making the Mango Chutney series one of India’s highest selling anthologies that was purely crowd-sourced via social media. It went on to become one of India’s highest selling anthologies of all time

We have proudly published some of India’s most renowned authors, such as Farrukh Dhondy (India my India), Shobha Bondre (The Sixth Element), Jeroninio ‘Jerry’ Almeida (India’s highest paid author), Kulpreet Yadav, Vish Dhamija and many more. Rumour titles have been appreciated well by our readers and media alike, testament to the quality of our work.

The company is devoted to publishing quality fiction and non-fiction which has the potential to provoke and influence at the same time. An example would be ‘Matabele Dawn’ by Saad Bin Jung, proved to be a crucial unifying link between Africa and India, which Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella described as, “a pure delight!”

Vish Dhamija, another author from the Rumour roster, has been touted as ‘India’s John Grisham’ (#1 bestseller in crime fiction and one of India’s highest-selling crime writers).

Thus, Rumour Books India has been aptly called a publishing house ‘where bestsellers are born’ due to our unique knack of publishing titles which become bestsellers.

In 2014, RBI partnered with the prestigious Indian School of Business (ISB), Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and Young Indians (Yi) for Cadence, an initiative where school students from the Northern Region were given the opportunity to get published in an anthology. Hundreds of students participated, making ‘Cadence’ one of the most successful social initiatives in Northern India where the aim is to promote the twin habits of reading and writing.

Apart from publishing, we also undertook the onus of promoting the literary habit in the region. Being the official promoters and organisers of the Panchkula Art and Literary Festival (PALF), where budding as well as well-known literary personalities are given a common platform to interact with audiences in the North, RBI prides itself in being hailed by the media as a “publishing house that does more than its bit for society.”

Since inception, we have published more than 100 titles and 50+ authors, which have scaled various bestselling lists internationally and nationally (Crossword, Amazon, Flipkart, the Hindu, etc), and are widely available in top bookstores.

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It all Started with a Rumour.

Rumour Books India (RBI) is one of India’s youngest and leading publishing houses, and is the only publisher from North India to have a national presence.We are the official publishers of the Prime Minister of India’s—Narendra Modi—‘Mann Ki Baat’.
Publishing quality fiction and non-fiction since 2012.


100

+ Titles


50

+ Authors