About the Book: Written For Ever: The Best of Civil Lines
The starting of Written For Ever can be traced back to the 1990s, when Civil
Lines was launched in 1994 as an Indian Literary Magazine by publisher Ravi
Dayal from New Delhi. Ravi Dayal had worked as an editor for the Oxford
University Press since 1971. After his retirement in 1987, he opened his own
publishing company, Ravi Dayal Publishers, which came out with Civil Lines. It
was inspired by the British magazine, Granta, with a focus on good-quality,
unpublished reportage, fiction and personal history. This inquisitive magazine
appealed instantly to the growing urban Indian population,