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Sukriti Tankha Google describes dystopia as “an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one”. In other words, a society wherein everything is undesirable or frightening. Author Manoj V. Jain has applied this definition of dystopia in his recently launched book by the same name […]Read More
Team L&M In a quiet shed at IIT Bombay, a small team of engineers, guided by Prof B Ravi and supported by the Government of Maharashtra and Government of India, began working on innovative medical devices to address pressing healthcare challenges. In less than four years, the Biomedical Engineering and Technology Incubation Centre (BETiC) has […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha This was the first time in over two decades of my journalistic career that someone I emailed questions about life, achievements, future plans and more… had the courtesy to reply with detailed answers—and even thanked me for taking an interest in his accomplishments. That’s Rishi Piparaiya for you, dear readers. The founder of […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha Her debut novel, What About Meera, won the inaugural Minara Aziz Hassim Literary Prize in South Africa and was longlisted for both the Etisalat Prize for Fiction—one of the most prestigious literary awards for African fiction—and the Sunday Times Barry Ronge Fiction Prize, South Africa’s largest literary honour. Her short stories also secured […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha I have always loved reading classics. Over the years, I’ve immersed myself in the works of Rabindranath Tagore, Saratchandra Chattopadhyay, Munshi Premchand, Amrita Pritam and Mahadevi Verma. Among them, Saratchandra remains my absolute favourite. His storytelling, especially the subtle romance woven into his narratives, touches the deepest chords of my heart. My […]Read More
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 (Roli Books) which has been republished recently. The senior journalist says India still has not […]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
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