Saurabh Tankha Picture this: an honest cop and his team of 20 officers are preparing to arrest a powerful godman with crores of followers. Before they can act, word leaks out. What follows is a storm of pressure, persuasion, and threats designed to stop them from proceeding. First comes money—an amount the officers are told […]Read More
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For us Indians, Pokhran means the site of the country’s first nuclear tests. But what many don’t know is that this village in Rajasthan’s Jaisalmer district had to face the lasting negative impact as a result of these tests. Why? Because this went largely unreported by the media. Economist-engineer-philosopher Uday Singh has debuted as an […]Read More
Garima Batra Instagram has helped many of us curate content and promote our businesses or brands effectively. It has also helped influencers and bloggers to elevate their promotions and brand entities. Now, another interesting niche created by Instagram is gradually getting popular. Known as the Bookstagram community, it is fast catching the savvy of Indians […]Read More
It is difficult to introduce Richa Gupta. An educationist, an instructional designer, an editor, a corporate trainer and now an author… Who knows what she will do next? But as of now, Richa has come up with her third novel, Slices of Life. While she penned her first one, Phoenix, under the pseudonym Arti Chugpai, […]Read More
‘He was gritty, complex, layered and full of colour, with never a dull moment. And in India’s smallest state, there was no other subject for a really interesting biography,’ say Sadguru Patil and Mayabhushan Nagvenkar, the authors of An Extraordinary Life: A Biography of Manohar Parrikar (Penguin India) to be released on June 22 on the […]Read More
In an email interview with Saurabh Tankha, authors Bijal Vachharajani (BV) and Radha Rangarajan (RR) talk about working for environment, ways to get kids closer to Nature and finalising the 10 names for the e-book, 10 Indian Champions Who Are Fighting To Save The Planet by Duckbill Books, to be released this evening. Excerpts: […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha I chanced upon Many Lives, Many Masters when I was passing through a particularly distressing period of my life, a sort of personal crisis. My dad wasn’t well, in fact, he was in a very bad shape, and for a person who had only helped others all his life, this was something […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha This book was first suggested to me by a friend, a spiritual healer, around four years back. The title interested me and I purchased the book but a few pages into it and I got goosebumps. The author was talking about her deteriorating cancer. I put the book away. It brought back […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha Have you ever wondered why some people have all the riches and comforts in life while others merely scrape through life facing all the troubles? What if I tell you it is all because of your deeds of not just this but the many past lives as well. Sounds unbelievable, doesn’t it? […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha This is one of the rarest tributes in Indian military literature—a father writing the biography of his son. Col VN Thapar has co-authored Vijyant At Kargil: The Life of a Kargil War Hero (Penguin Random House India) along with Neha Dwivedi, daughter of another Kargil martyr. The book honours Capt Vijyant Thapar, who was […]Read More