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 senior […]Read More
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World-renowned diabetologist Padma Shri DR V MOHAN tells SAURABH TANKHA about the gap in demand and supply of diabetes treatment facilities in India, how challenging it is to be a doctor-preneur, solutions to counter diabetes, his life and more… His name is synonymous with diabetes and diabetology in India. He has established one of the […]Read More
Hoping to help people open up their lives to a myriad of opportunities, writer and life coach ADITYA NATH has come up with his maiden book, Awaken Your Soulprint (Rupa Publications). This book, says Nath, postulates the concept of soulful living, a spiritually evolved way of modern-day thinking, based on the realisations of thousands of […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha Author Agatha Christie worked as a full-time pharmacist assistant and Pulitzer prize winning poet Wallace Stevens was as an insurance executive. So it doesn’t come as a surprise to find DR SIDDHARTH NIRWAN, an ENT consultant and assistant professor at Jaipur’s SMS Medical College & Hospital, penning books on horror. Born to a […]Read More
Former DGP and adviser to the Governor of Uttarakhand ALOKE LAL, in an interview with SAURABH TANKHA, talks about the demolition of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya. It was a monumental failure of the security forces. And, those who deserve to be brought to justice are protected and losing some comrades to violence. All this […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha It is 21st century’s answer to the age-old tradition of storytelling. Instead of being huddled up near a fire, readers and writers now perch with their laptops, desktops or mobile screens. It is Pratilipi – an online platform which brings readers, writers and their stories together in a virtual community to instigate a […]Read More
It was during the pandemic lockdown that MAHESH RAJAN commenced his writing journey with a short story to escape the mundane lockdown everyday life. He got encouraged when his stories and story ideas were acknowledged by the people he shared the stories with. Rajan believes his zest for writing is rooted in his story ideas […]Read More
A chemical engineer who works with a risk management firm, Prachand Praveer took to writing in his childhood days to express himself, beginning with small stories at first. In 2010, his first Hindi novel, Alpahari Grihatyagi: IIT Se Pahle was published by Harper Hindi. His second book, Abhinav Cinema, published by Dakhal Prakashan in 2016, […]Read More
Noted author, journalist, translator and theatre critic SHANTA GOKHALE recently translated Shyamchi Aai (Puffin Classics), considered to be the greatest tribute to mother’s love in Marathi literature. The octogenarian writer talks to SAURABH TANKHA about transformations in theatre over the last six decades, the most difficult part of artistic process, the role her mother played […]Read More