L&M SPECIAL

The humble freedom fighter

Rajkumari Sharma Tankha It was on the occasion of the Golden Jubilee Celebrations of Indian Independence (1997) that The Hindustan Times, the newspaper I worked for back then, started a series – I Remember: 50 Years of Freedom, and I met the last surviving member of the famous Train Dacoity of Kakori. Manmathnath Gupt was […]Read More

L&M SPECIAL

We lost Tagore today

Team L&M It was on August 7, 1941 that Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore passed away in Kolkata, West Bengal. The first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913, Tagore was the composer of three national anthems: Jana Gana Mana for India, Amar Shonar Bangla for Bangladesh and one of his students at Viswa Bharati University, […]Read More

ENTERTAINMENT

This serial ij indeed alag

NOTE: If you are thinking, there’s a typo in the headline, please read on… Rajkumari Sharma Tankha There is a TV serial on air on channel Star Bharat these days — Nimki Mukhiya. And like other shows on the idiot box, this one too has an ample amount of saas-bahu saga but unlike other serials, the story is not […]Read More

BOOKS

‘I experienced the atrocious apartheid system first hand’

Saurabh Tankha Her debut novel, What About Meera, won the inaugural Minara Aziz Hassim Literary Prize in South Africa and was longlisted for both the Etisalat Prize for Fiction (the most prestigious literary prize for African fiction) and the Sunday Times Barry Ronge Fiction Prize (South Africa’s largest literary award). Her short stories were awarded second prize in […]Read More

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