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Life, work and play in Gurugram

Rajkumari Sharma Tankha Lest you are mistaken, Debeshi Gooptu’s Gurgaon Diaries (Rupa, 226 pages, Rs 295) is not in a diary format despite its title. Rather it is a collection of small stories, anecdotes to be precise, presented randomly — each one driving home the point that in spite of being an IT hub sporting […]Read More

ARTS

I believe in maintaining the purity of the raag: Rupak

Saurabh Tankha Noted flautist Rupak Kulkarni will be playing with his guru, Pt Hariprasad Chaurasia, at the eighth edition of Citi-NCPA Aadi Anant: From Here to Eternity Music Festival beginning November 18. Spread across four cities: Pune, Mumbai, Chennai and Bengaluru, the three-month long festival is one of the most highly anticipated events of the […]Read More

BOOKS

The fightback story

Rajkumari Sharma Tankha The Adventures of Young Kalam by Stuti Agarwal (Juggernaut, Rs 199, 168 pages ) is an interesting insight into the life of India’s late President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam. But don’t you take it to be a fact-based narrative as it is a fictional story that reimagines Kalam’s childhood in a magical manner!, so […]Read More

L&M SPECIAL TECH

Online dating and sexual harassment

Kylie* had been chatting with Marco* for about a month after having connected on OKCupid, but they hadn’t yet met in person. One night, after over an hour of increasingly flirty texts, Marco suggested that they switch to a more visual forum – he wanted to Skype sex. The next day, Kylie was horrified when […]Read More

L&M SPECIAL

Report sexual harassment at workplace

Sexual harassment comes in different forms, and when it’s online it’s often even less obvious. Yet, it still happens. If you’re in a professional situation where you feel uncomfortable, you should immediately start recording it. Often larger cases are built on a pattern of small incidents, which, if not documented properly, won’t be useful as evidence. […]Read More

BOOKS

Love life, live life

Rajkumari Sharma Tankha I couldn’t have got Life’s Amazing Secrets: How To Find Balance and Purpose In Your Life at a better time. Confused and at crossroads on various life issues, I had recently joined a spiritual group (Beings Of Light) and started attending its monthly meetings. The group founder Major Dalbir Singh often called me for […]Read More

BOOKS

Fail, falter and then succeed: The ‘fluid’ paradigm

Team L&M Oxford scholar Ashish Jaiswal’s book, fluid, which emerged as the #1 bestseller in educational philosophy on Amazon soon after its pre-order launch, was the subject of discussion Mumbai’s Crossword Bookstores, Kemps Corner. Hailed as a revolutionary book by scholars from Harvard, Yale and Oxford, one of the key premises of fluid is that being uncertain in […]Read More

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