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Rajkumari Sharma Tankha History often consigns its most extraordinary stories to the margins. The grand narratives of collapsing empires, nationalist awakenings and political realignments dominate our understanding of the past. But, the more improbable subplots slip quietly into obscurity. And, The Indian Caliphate by Imran Mulla is a bid to resurrect one such forgotten episode […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha History often remembers movements but forgets the individuals who quietly shaped them. In Daktarin Jamini Sen (Penguin Random House India), author Deepta Roy revives the remarkable yet largely forgotten story of one of India’s earliest women doctors. The book is an insightful and deeply researched account of courage, resilience and quiet rebellion. […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha Over the years, many books have explored Delhi through its monuments, history, bustling markets and rapid urban development. Rarely, however, do we encounter books that look at the Capital through the lens of its flora and fauna. Wild Capital: Discovering Nature in Delhi (HarperCollins India) by Neha Sinha breaks this pattern beautifully. […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha Amit Lodha, the celebrated IPS officer who previously wrote Bihar Diaries: The True Story of How Bihar’s Most Dangerous Criminal Was Caught and Life in the Uniform: Adventures of an IPS Officer in Bihar, now releases a fiction Indian crime thriller titled Police Affairs: Beyond the Call of Duty (Penguin), which draws […]Read More
Upasana Kaura If you want to achieve something, get up and take action, begin doing, rather than just thinking and making plans about it. This is the crux of YANGA Unplugged (Passionpreneur Publishing) by Prema Patel recently out on the bookshelves. It is not just another run-of-the-mill self-development book. For, the author here doesn’t dictate […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha Rebellion in Verse (Penguin) by Raghavan Srinivasan explores the Tamil Bhakti movement, a medieval South Indian devotional surge, which the author argues was not only spiritual but also a profound social and cultural revolution. The book looks at how Tamil poet-saints challenged rigid religious hierarchies, caste-based discrimination, and Sanskrit-centric ritualism by composing […]Read More
L&M Jammu and Kashmir is not merely a region endowed with natural beauty. It has also been a center of India’s cultural, spiritual, and philosophical consciousness. This core idea was highlighted through the launch of an important film and coffee table book titled Sanskriti Jammu & Kashmir. The event was held at the Indira Gandhi […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha Divided into five sections (Perspective, The Inner Game, Work & Worth, People & Pain, and The Chaos of Clarity), The Flip Life (Penguin Random House) by Amit Dhawan is worth reading, not once, but as many times as you develop some sort of confusion in your own life. Yes, this book clears […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha Iranian-born Poet-Playwright Sholeh Wolpé works have long illuminated the bridges between cultures, languages, and spiritual traditions. Her latest bookpix, The Invisible Sun (HarperCollins), offers a luminous translation of Attar of Nishapur’s works. One of Persian literature’s most profound mystic voices, Rumi revered Attar. In conversation with Life & More, she tells us […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha When we think of World War II, the stories that come to mind are often European or American — Dunkirk, Normandy, Hiroshima. Yet, vast archives of history bury the forgotten voices of thousands of Indian soldiers who enemy forces captured, imprisoned, and pushed to the very edge of survival in the war’s […]Read More
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