Author-teacher Reshma K Barshikar on her latest creative venture, her life, why is it important to write fiction for young adults and while at it, she makes a few honest confessions… On my book, The Hidden Children The Hidden Children is about a girl who wants to speak to a butterfly, and how far she […]Read More
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Saurabh Tankha Novelist-academician-literary critic Saikat Majumdar recently came out with his latest work, The Scent Of God. Born in Kolkata and educated in India and the US, Majumdar, after teaching stints in the US and Canada, is now a professor of creative writing and English at Ashoka University. We spoke to Majumdar about The Scent […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha Was he sane? Was he a psychopath? What (and not who) was he? — These are questions that keep striking you days after reading The Sane Psychopath (Fingerprint Publishing; 240 pages; Rs 199) from cover to cover. And even as you keep wondering as to who can get you the answers to these […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha Born and raised in Mumbai, Vikram Paralkar is a physician-scientist at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, USA. In 2017, his book The Wounds of the Dead was published by HarperCollins India in 2017. His latest work, The Afflictions, first published in 2014 in the US has now released in India. It has also been translated […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha Bhupen Patel is an investigative journalist, credited with many a scoops. In the course of his career, he exposed many kinds of crimes ranging from mental asylum admitting patients without proper scrutiny, ‘film producers’ fleecing wannabe actors and actresses in the name of making movies to agents who arrange for temporary wives for […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha Trisha Das’ Kama’s Last Sutra (Harper Collins, Rs 299, Pages 299) is a feminist fantasy novel that travels across time, foregrounds women’s sexual agency, challenges gender roles, sexual taboos and caste divisions. Protagonist Tara Singh, an archaeologist, is on an excavation project in the ruins near Khajuraho, hoping to unearth a new temple […]Read More
Team L&M With the launch of Write India Book 2, penned by 31 budding writers, the second season of Write India had a fitting finale at Times Lit Fest Delhi on December 2, 2018. The book launch, at the country’s biggest writing platform, saw the felicitation of top 10 winners by authors Manu Joseph, Amish […]Read More
Team L&M Books play a very crucial role in everyone’s life, more so that of kids. As they say, books are considered man’s best friend — the wealth of knowledge they give is unparalleled. There are few publishers that have dedicated themselves for children, and Katha Books, founded by Padma Shri Geeta Dharmrajan in 1988, is one […]Read More
Team L&M Seventy speakers from 13 countries are all set to delight children and parents alike in Delhi with some scintillating storytelling, workshops, drama, art & craft and books at the 11th edition of Bookaroo, India’s first children’s literature festival. Two days of non-stop fun with books will unfold at Alpenliebe-Bookaroo Delhi 2018, a collaboration with Indira Gandhi National Centre […]Read More
It was a Wednesday. Assistant Police Inspector Tukaram Omble was scheduled to work the evening shift. The television was tuned to the cricket match—India was playing England in the fifth ODI of a seven match bilateral cricket series in Cuttack. Before he could leave for the DB Marg police station to report to work, the […]Read More