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Book: Stories from Saratchandra: Innocence and Reality, by Saratchandra Chattopadhyay, translated by Anindita Mukhopadhyay Publisher: Rupa Price: Rs 295 Rajkumari Sharma Tankha I love reading classics. I have read most works of Rabindranath Tagore, Saratchandra Chattopadhyay, Munshi Premchand, Amrita Pritam, Mahadevi Verma in Hindi. Of these three, Saratchandra is my favourite. I simply love his […]Read More
A Soldier’s Diary: Kargil, The Inside Story by Harinder Baweja; Roli Books; Rs 395 With less than 48 hours to go for the 19th anniversary of Kargil Vijay Diwas (July 26), www.lifeandmore.in founder-editor Rajkumari Sharma Tankha talks to Harinder Baweja, editor at The Hindustan Times, on her book, A Soldier’s Diary: Kargil, The Inside Story which […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha The idiom “Never judge a book by its cover” fits Himanshu Rai’s My Mute Girlfriend (Srishti Publishers & Distributors/ Rs 199) to the bill. I must confess, when I first received the book with the request from the author to review, I was not much impressed. The cover photo looked too filmi, […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha You need to be brave and self-confident to attempt a work like this as your debut. For chances are you can fall flat with a subject that has been talked about and written in a thousand different ways by newcomers and established writers in prose and poetry. But Reecha Agarwal Goyal in her […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha If the credit for making this picture book from Karadi Tales – Fly, Little Fish! –so attractive and beautiful should go to someone, it has to be its illustrators – Satwik Gade and Ashwathy PS. The two have very intelligently kept in mind the readership the book is targetted at – the age […]Read More
Team L&M Your grandma would have narrated you innumerable stories from the two epics, Ramayana and Mahabharata, during your childhood days. But do you recall her telling you one about a character from Ramayana who slept for 14 years. No, we are not talking about demon king Ravana’s son, Kumbhakarna (famous for his never-ending sleep) […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha As soon as you pick up The Great Storyteller by Ken Spillman, the first thing that draws your immediate attention is its beautiful illustrations. Full marks to the illustrator Manjari Chakravarti for creating a soothing and colourful canvas for kids. Despite the illustrations of characters in the book being created unconventionally, they attract […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha I remember donning the hat of Jim Corbett whenever I entered a bookshop. Why you may ask? For it took hours to hunt for creative, illustrated and reader-friendly publications for my daughters much like the famous hunter searching for the man-eating tigers in the Kumaon region. In fact, finding ones launched recently by […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha It is not every day that you win a prize in school for writing a humorous piece instead of a formal writeup on My Favourite Sport during an essay writing competition. That perhaps helped kindle the fire in Sania Siddiqui to express herself through writing. She was eight then. “I penned how badminton […]Read More
Team L&M Nikhila Chalamalasetty, a differently-abled girl from Andhra Pradesh, has come out with her own book, The Day I Started Flying. In the book, she talks about her disability, ups and downs she faced in her life and the stigmas she suffered besides raising the big question — Can disability really destroy all the […]Read More
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