Saurabh Tankha Author Agatha Christie worked as a full-time pharmacist assistant and Pulitzer prize winning poet Wallace Stevens was as an insurance executive. So it doesn’t come as a surprise to find DR SIDDHARTH NIRWAN, an ENT consultant and assistant professor at Jaipur’s SMS Medical College & Hospital, penning books on horror. Born to a […]Read More
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Former DGP and adviser to the Governor of Uttarakhand ALOKE LAL, in an interview with SAURABH TANKHA, talks about the demolition of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya being a monumental failure of the security forces, those who deserve to be brought to justice are protected and losing some comrades to violence. All this and more […]Read More
It is 21st century’s answer to the age-old tradition of storytelling. Instead of being huddled up near a fire, readers and writers now perch with their laptops, desktops or mobile screens. It is Pratilipi – an online platform which brings readers, writers and their stories together in a virtual community to instigate a dialogue on […]Read More
It was during the pandemic lockdown that MAHESH RAJAN commenced his writing journey with a short story to escape the mundane lockdown everyday life. He got encouraged when his stories and story ideas were acknowledged by the people he shared the stories with. Rajan believes his zest for writing is rooted in his story ideas […]Read More
A chemical engineer who works with a risk management firm, Prachand Praveer took to writing in his childhood days to express himself, beginning with small stories at first. In 2010, his first Hindi novel, Alpahari Grihatyagi: IIT Se Pahle was published by Harper Hindi. His second book, Abhinav Cinema, published by Dakhal Prakashan in 2016, […]Read More
Team L&M As a genre, speculative fiction, has created a place for itself in the book reading market. It is an umbrella genre that encompasses the sub-genres of the fiction category. While there is still an ongoing debate about its clear definition, the genre is constantly evolving and will witness an increase in preference by […]Read More
Noted author, journalist, translator and theatre critic SHANTA GOKHALE recently translated Shyamchi Aai (Puffin Classics), considered to be the greatest tribute to mother’s love in Marathi literature. The octogenarian writer talks to SAURABH TANKHA about transformations in theatre over the last six decades, the most difficult part of artistic process, the role her mother played […]Read More
As the nation kick-starts the year-long celebrations of the 125th birth anniversary of NETAJI SUBHASH CHANDRA BOSE today (Jan 23, 2021), we bring you an interview with author RAJESH TALWAR who clears the air about Bose’s alleged death in an air crash, stating it all to be a made-up story in his book, The Vanishing […]Read More
Former journalist-turned-social entrepreneur BISWAJIT JHA talks to SAURABH TANKHA about what made him choose tea garden labourer Karimul Hak as the protagonist for his debut novel, Bike Ambulance Dada (Penguin Random House India). When did it occur to you that the story of Karimul Hak should reach out to people in the form of a […]Read More
Padma Bhushan SRI M sees the world in a different light. He sees the good, the bad and sometimes, the supernatural. In his quintessential no-holds barred style, Sri M’s most recent release, The Homecoming And Other Stories, urges one to delve deep into the human spirit and get a glimpse of why people do the things they do […]Read More