Popular Prakashan, originally started as Popular Book Depot in 1924 floated a separate company for publishing activities in 1962. It publishes books related in Medicine and the Social Sciences. Popular Prakashan has issued over a thousand titles in English and nine hundred titles in
Marathi concentrating mainly on fiction, drama, literary criticism and poetry. It also publishes in Kannada,
Hindi,
Bengali, and
Konkani.
Popular Prakashan has tie-ups with Discovery Channel, Star TV and Encyclopedia Britannica, to bring out books in the general arena and in the field of education.
