Rajkumari Sharma Tankha It has been a decade that anthropologist-travel writer-freelance journalist Haroon Khalid has been travelling extensively around Pakistan to document the country’s cultural and historical heritage. Author of three published books, A White Trail: A Journey into the Heart of Pakistan’s Religious Minorities, In Search of Shiva: A Study of Folk Religious Practices […]Read More
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Saurabh Tankha Corporate leader-turned-author Arvind Parashar has had a creative inclination in life from his childhood days. Hailing from the hill station of Dehradun, he used to write and publish songs, poems and stories during as a kid. Not this alone, he was an avid quizzer too and represented his school at district and state levels […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha At first glance Hemis, Madhu Tandan’s latest novel, appears to be a simple story of marital discord. To escape the daily fights with his wife Swati, the protagonist Ajay, plans a trip to Ladakh, a trip that he feels would give him much breathing space and also some time to think through […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha Around four years back, Karachi-based journalist Taha Kehar gave up the prospect of a legal career and flew back to Karachi from London where he was pursuing a law degree from SOAS, University of London. He became a full-time journalist/ editor at The Express Tribune where he worked on the Peshawar city edition […]Read More
Team L&M In celebration of the survival and struggle of the world’s languages, the 84th PEN International Congress, alongside The People’s Linguistic Survey of India, created the Bhasha Van, literally Global Language Park, on the campus of Pune University’s International Centre. As a part of the congress, 180 trees were planted by the delegates from around […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha She’s tall, beautiful and one of Bollywood’s leading ladies. He’s goofy, loves to wear outlandish clothes and is constantly getting into trouble with reporters. These two sentences on the back cover of Saranya Rai’s debut novel Love, Take Two (Penguin Books 230 pages Rs 250) have uncanny resemblance to the classic M&B […]Read More
Is: A Journey That Will Change Your Life Author: Sandeep Amar Publishers: Prabhat Prakashan Rs 200, Pages: 94 Rajkumari Sharma Tankha I must confess it was the unusual title of the book that first attracted me to it. But when I first read Is: A Journey That Will Change Your Life by Sandeep Amar […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha Remember the innumerable occasions your grandmother told you how, as teenagers, your grandfather and even your father, ate dollops of butter on paranthas every morning, or had two teaspoons of desi ghee every morning. And how you, by not eating all this and more, miss out on being a physically fit individual. Well, […]Read More
मालविका हरिओम इन किताबों में कुछ तो होता है ओस बनकर जो मन भिगोता है इल्म के एक-एक मोती को रूह की तार में पिरोता है कोई तो है जो ग़म सँजोता है इन किताबों में कुछ तो होता है ज़िन्दगी के हसीन पन्नों पर जब वो तारीख़ मुस्कुराती है तेरी यादों की तितलियों […]Read More
Team L&M The Mystic and Her Colours, a unique coffee table book of award-winning art and lyrical prose by the mystic Pratiksha Apurv was launched by film director and producer Vishal Bhardwaj and his wife singer Rekha Bhardwaj. The book is a compilation of spiritual artworks and text, earlier published in Speaking Tree (a Times […]Read More