Saurabh Tankha Picture this: An honest cop with a team of 20 is out to arrest a corrupt godman with crores of followers. But before they can do so, the word gets out and efforts are made to discourage the men in khaki from arresting this “influential and well-connected” sadhu. First, money – an amount, […]Read More
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Isn’t this August, the month India gained Independence? For when in the same month the country gained Independence, the voice of its citizens was silenced due to pressures from the same quarters from whose clutches it managed to break free. In such a scenario, what does one do? Where does one go? These were the […]Read More
Team L&M For those of you who travelled aboard Indian Railways during the 80s and the early 90s would surely remember the messages on the outer walls of houses running parallel to the railway tracks. The ones that seemingly never-ended and stated: Rishte hi rishte mil toh lein, ** Regarpura… Perhaps the most innovative way […]Read More
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
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
The National Digital Library of India (NDL), with 3.5 crore academic content, is now available on UMANG app. The project under the Ministry of Human Resources is spearheaded by IIT Kharagpur. With educational institutions shut due to the lockdown, students can now study from home using NDLI on UMANG app. After the imposition of the […]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
Team L&M Want to know about Indian conservationists who are working in diverse ways to save the world from human destructiveness, often facing seemingly insurmountable odds? People like Romulus Whitaker, Parineeta Dandekar, Rohan Arthur, Vidya Athreya, Aparajita Datta, Jay Mazoomdaar, Minal Pathak, Rohan Chakravarty, Kavitha Kuruganti and Laxmi Kamble who are striving to solve the […]Read More
Saurabh 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 I […]Read More