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
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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
Team L&M When you are ranked 122 out of 155 and that too globally then there is something wrong somewhere big time and there is nothing to feel happy or cheerful about. So has been the case with India as the country’s happiness levels dropped by 0.839 points on a scale of 2.7, according to […]Read More
Upasana Sharma Kaura BBC and Google have used it in their offices. Oprah Winfrey promoted it on her show. Aamir Khan loved it on Satyamev Jayate. Mira Nair filmed a documentary, The Laughing Club of India, on it… One does not need celebs being mentioned on invites to attend events, especially when it happens to […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha A Man with Golden Seeds – Dr Narayan Bhai Chawda Author: Rajeev Ranjan Prasad Publisher: Yash Publications PP: 268 , Rs 250 Have you ever wondered why we don’t get to see biographies of farmers, despite India being an agricultural country wherein farmers should get much respect and prominence. Isn’t it disheartening? […]Read More
Team L&M With the aim of introducing India to the diversity of the Peruvian cuisine, four cookbooks, that promise to take you through an exciting journey that celebrates one of the most awarded cuisines of the world, were unveiled in the presence of the Ambassador of the Republic of Peru, Jorge Castañeda. The event took […]Read More