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
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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
Being part of a police force that has earned a reputation for having taken on terrorism head-on and neutralising it, a young officer from Punjab has learnt all the tricks of dealing with crime-related issues. But the intellectual in him has forced him to make an attempt to deal with bigger issues facing the country […]Read More
A poetry collection, The Sound of Silence, composed by debut author Akanksha G Mittal explores the themes of love, longing, and liberation, and was launched by actor Dia Mirza in New Delhi. Calling the collection a “refreshing and uplifting work”, Mirza said on Wednesday that “poetry has remained constant” in her reading list. “To know […]Read More
Book The Sellout Nation: A Tryst with Globalisation Author Vikram Bhatti Pages 228 Publisher notionpress.com Price Rs 290 Rajkumari Sharma Tankha Why I picked up The Sellout Nation …a Tryst with Globalisation is because I was thoroughly exhausted of the number of chick lit romances I was deluged with. I wanted something different, and […]Read More
Book: Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and The Unexpected Solutions Author: Johann Hari Publisher Bloomsbury Price Rs 469 Dr Avni S. Tiwari Lost Connections – Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression and the Unexpected Solutions is a very engrossing read. It starts with a story about being diagnosed with depression and […]Read More