Shreya Garg Nine Mantras for Happiness and Success (Readomania Publishing, Rs 315, 230 pages) is a step-by-step practical guide to train one’s mind to achieve happiness and success. This is the third book authored by Maj Gen Anand Saxena, who writes across genres and delivers every time, and this time is no exception. Major Gen […]Read More
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Sukriti Tankha The KLF Bhava Samvad hosted a session on the book In the footsteps of Rama – Travels with Ramayana (HarperCollins) recently. Authors of the book Vikrant Pande and Neelesh Kulkarni participated in the talk which was moderated by economist and author Sanjeev Sanyal. The book is a tale of authors’ quest to find […]Read More
Sukriti Tankha The Biography of a Failed Venture is an account of learning from mistakes. It is the story of an Indian sports brand D:FY that Prashant Desai started in 2017, but couldn’t take it to success. In less than three years he lost everything he had earned in the three decades of his professional […]Read More
Anurag Kaul At the Horizon of Life & Death by Dr Pankaj Kumar, an internist and Director, Critical Care at Fortis Hospital in Shalimar Bagh, Delhi throws light on the relationship between doctors and critical patients (those who face death). It has 20 short stories, each talking about the psyche of a doctor, what he […]Read More
Team L&M A practicing Ayurvedic physician, Dr GG Gangadharan (pic above), is currently the Director of M S Ramaiah Indic Centre for Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. A champion of Ayurveda for the past three and a half decades he has authored three research papers, 12 research articles, 13 primary papers and six […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha I’ve always had this special place for crime thrillers, both in my heart and in my library. From The Frozen Dead (Bernard Minier) to Thirteen Hours (Deon Meyer) to Hypothermia (Aranldur Indridason) and The Vault (Ruth Rendell) to Critical Mass (Sara Paretsky) to Before I Go To Sleep (SJ Watson), these releases over […]Read More
At a spooky themed resort in Mahabaleshwar, bestselling author Sivan Singh conducts a workshop on advanced horror-writing. On its final day, nine participants, influenced by their eerie experiences during their stay, along with an enigmatic writer, go all out for the story narration competition, Scare Me If You Can. Let your head spin around as […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha Author SUTAPA BASU credits her parents – Army officer father and homemaker mother – to have inculcated the habit of writing in her. Surprisingly, the English Literature graduate from Santiniketan and holder of two post-graduate degrees, in English literature and education, feels her younger brother, an advertising professional, and sister, part of […]Read More
Former chief election commissioner and opinion-maker DR SY QURAISHI, through his book – The Population Myth:Islam, Family Planning and Politics in India (Harper Collins, Rs 499, 336 pages) – evaluates India’s demographics from a religious perspective, to bust myths of a skew towards any particular religion. He talks to SAURABH TANKHA about politics over population, […]Read More