Team L&M The National Sanskrit University, in collaboration with Ved Bhumi Connect and the Aurobindo Society, Pondicherry, hosted a landmark event to launch Dr Tony Nader’s book, Consciousness Is All There Is. The event included a felicitation ceremony and a keynote lecture by Dr Tony Nader. It was part of the ‘Vedas and World Peace […]Read More
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Rajkumari Sharma Tankha Part travelogue, part memoir, part family history and imbued with rigorous scholarship, The Other Mohan (HarperCollins Fourth Estate) by author Amrita Shah is not just a labour of love, but also a quest to understand her great-grandfather, Mohanlal, who set sail for South Africa from pre-independent India at the turn of twentieth century. […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha Since its inception in 2000, Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), the Pakistan-supported South Asian terrorist group has been responsible for countless terror attacks in Jammu and Kashmir. Jaish-e-Mohammed (HarperCollins India) is the first detailed and comprehensive study of JeM. Authored by Abhinav Pandya, it examines the origins of this organisation, its ideology, organisational structure, financing, […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha Author Nidhi Upadhyay recently released a thriller The Drowning (Penguin). An engineer by by education, she gave up her successful career as a headhunter to become a mother and a writer. Excerpts from an interview: How did you get the idea of writing The Drowning? What inspired you to write this story. And […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha Author K Hari Kumar has come out with his new book Dakini. Published by HarperCollins, Dakini is a thrilling depiction of human courage in the face of terrifying adversity, and of superstition dwarfed by the power of the supernatural. Says the authior, “Dakini is deeply personal to me.” At its core, it’s a powerful […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha elf-love. What exactly is it? Is self-love the same as being selfish? And how can self-love lead to greater fulfilment—not just for you, but for those around you? If you are grappling with these questions and not finding satisfying answers, Time To Come Home by Damini Grover is a book you should […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha Author Vijaya Sandireddy, Apart from working as a team leader at Infosys, Vijaya Sandireddy is an author too. She recently unveiled her second novel When The Mountains Moved (TreeShade Books). Centered around friendship and love, this book is an immersive experience of a Himalayan trek and readers will be able to relate […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha A techie-turned-entrepreneur-turned-academician (he is a consultant at the University of Texas, Austin), Sundar Nathan, has come out with a mythological fiction novel titled Demons and Their Gods (Notion Press). This is the second book of his nine-book series – The Naraka Cycle, and follows Ravan, a young Asuran prince, as he recovers […]Read More
Dr Sukriti Tankha Main chauraasi ki ladki hun (I am a woman who has survived 1984). This single line, spoken by a Sikh woman who lived through the 1984 anti-Sikh genocide in Delhi, sets the tone for what follows. It is powerful, haunting, and enough to hint at the unimaginable trauma she endured. Even after […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha What is Hindu astrology? How does it work? When does it not work? How has it been developed? Is it similar to other astrological systems? All this and more is contained in recently published Hindu Astrology: Myths, Symbols, and Realities. The book, authored by Oxford mathematician, Dr A P Stone, was first […]Read More