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
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There is a school of thought that believes in the ‘Here and now’, ‘What we sow is what we reap’, they believe. ‘The concept of soul or karma is not a tangible one and nobody has been able to authenticate it yet, so how do I believe in it’, said one of my friends. Promptly, […]Read More
Team L&M Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls 1 & 2 by Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo: 100 bedtime stories about the perseverance and bravery of 100 extraordinary women, this book has been illustrated by 60 female artists from around the world. The Upside Down King by Sudha Murty: Discover speaking bears, Ravana’s brother- the God of Wealth, and a […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha Lest you are mistaken, Debeshi Gooptu’s Gurgaon Diaries (Rupa, 226 pages, Rs 295) is not in a diary format despite its title. Rather it is a collection of small stories, anecdotes to be precise, presented randomly — each one driving home the point that in spite of being an IT hub sporting […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha The Adventures of Young Kalam by Stuti Agarwal (Juggernaut, Rs 199, 168 pages ) is an interesting insight into the life of India’s late President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam. But don’t you take it to be a fact-based narrative as it is a fictional story that reimagines Kalam’s childhood in a magical manner!, so […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha I couldn’t have got Life’s Amazing Secrets: How To Find Balance and Purpose In Your Life at a better time. Confused and at crossroads on various life issues, I had recently joined a spiritual group (Beings Of Light) and started attending its monthly meetings. The group founder Major Dalbir Singh often called me for […]Read More
Team L&M Oxford scholar Ashish Jaiswal’s book, fluid, which emerged as the #1 bestseller in educational philosophy on Amazon soon after its pre-order launch, was the subject of discussion Mumbai’s Crossword Bookstores, Kemps Corner. Hailed as a revolutionary book by scholars from Harvard, Yale and Oxford, one of the key premises of fluid is that being uncertain in […]Read More
Team L&M British-born-Indian author Sonal Sachdev Patel recently released her latest book, GITA: The Battle of the Worlds (HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks, Fiction, Rs 250, 104 pages). Based on Paramahansa Yogananda’s interpretation of the Gita, the book covers some of the key spiritual messages within a fictional adventure story+ for children. It is a modern-day instructional manual that […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha Dev, an 11-year-old boy, is dejected after his father passes away. He cannot come to the terms of his father’s death and takes out his anger on his mother as well as younger brother, and in turn, becomes sad. Then, he meets Sanjay who not only teaches him how to deal with […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha Love & Rage, The Inner World of Children by child psychotherapist Nupur Dhingra Paiva (Yoda Press, 235 pages, Rs 450) talks about the inner world of children – children, most of whom she has counselled over the years, and whose stories she has shared with their permission. “By sharing these stories, I […]Read More