Chandan Pandey is the author of four short-story collections and two novels in Hindi. He has been honoured with many awards including the Bharatiya Jnanpith’s Navlekhan Award. Sayari Debnath, a journalist at Scroll, translates Hindi and Bengali literature to English. “I wrote these stories in the grips of unrelenting restlessness. I look keenly at the […]Read More
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Team L&M Being born into a family that deeply valued education and the arts fostered the love for storytelling into her early in life. But it was only after Monica Saigal completed her engineering degree that she finally decided to follow her passion for writing. Now settled in US, as an established author, she continues to […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha Rising Flame, an NGO working in the disabled space, recently published a book And They Lived… Ever After. The book is a collection of 13 fairy tales we have grown up reading, but with a different twist. These stories are written by authors facing one or the other disability in their life, […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha Meekanshi Jain’s Rama and Ayodhya (2013), made a historical case for the Ram Temple in place of the Babri Masjid. And her Vishwanath Rises and Rises: The Story of Eternal Kashi (Aryan Books), published last month, does so for Kashi Vishwanath temple in place of a mosque. One of the oldest inhabited […]Read More
Pre-colonial religious sensibilities didn’t differentiate much between Hindu, Muslim traditions,
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha Author Haroon Khalid brings Waris Shah to life in From Waris to Heer (Penguinb Random House), his experimental retelling of Heer and Ranjha. Weaving a story within the story in this book, he successfully portrays what Waris Shah’s life and times must have been in pre-colonial Punjab and how did the story […]Read More
Team L&M Author and poet Mohua Chinappa is back with a collection of poems, If Only It Were Spring Everyday (Srishti Publishers), which is a heartfelt exploration of love, respect, and resilience in the face of adversity. In this collection, love is celebrated, and pain is felt deeply, reminding us of the fragility of the human […]Read More
BookMeet – Defaulters Paradise by Anant Merathia, Commercial Disputes Lawyer
Anant Merathia is a practicing commercial disputes lawyer, with nearly two decades of experience behind him. He has written a book ‘Defaulters Paradise Lost’ that talks about Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2016. Here, he talks about the book, IBC Code, NPAs, and India on the path becoming the third largest economy. Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha Descend into the deepest, murkiest torture chambers of the soul with Aparna Sanyal’s. Instruments of Torture (HarperCollins), a collection of eight short stories, each of which explores a different theme. Each of the eight stories is named after a medieval torture device, and the true meaning—and impact—of every title bubble to the […]Read More
Mamta Chander who writes under her pen name Turiya is a Gurugram-based senior management professional. Her book of poems, ‘A Vast Empty’ is collection of poems she has written in the last two years. Realistic and thought-provoking, these introspective poems talk about the silent battles, perhaps each on us fight within us. Read More
Published by BluOne Ink, ‘Bharat Rising’ by Utpal Kumar is a thought-provoking and deeply-researched, book that talks about India embracing its civilisational past with pride, and standing its ground when it comes to its ties with its neighbours, the West and Europe. Kumar works as the Opinion Editor at News18 and Firstpost.Read More