Team L&M In the introduction to The Shiva Sutras (Ranjit Chaudhri; Fingerprint; Rs 199; Pages 143), author Ranjit Chaudhri writes that these “are aphorisms which, as per the legend, were revealed by Lord Shiva to the sage Vasugupta in the eighth century AD. There are three versions of this came around. The first version says […]Read More
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Saurabh Tankha I was born in an era when music was at your command but could not move with you unlike today when you can have music just about anywhere. Back then you needed to plug and play music, be it on a cassette player or a two-in-one. Though some of the latter models did […]Read More
Team L&M In recent times, the doctor-patient relationship has suffered lack of trust and perhaps empathy, and the connection seems to be much less than it used to be. While earlier, doctors used to be treated as god, these days there are unfortunate news of conflicts between doctors and society. In fact, even the incidence of violence against […]Read More
Team L&M To help youngsters understand how to study, prepare for exams and manage stress during the exam time, the Department of Mental Health and Behavioral Sciences, Fortis Healthcare under the aegis of the Fortis School Mental Health Program, has launched the first book on Study and Exam Skills, as part of the comic series […]Read More
Team L&M There are some stories which you read and forget. And then there are others which remain with you forever. A Year of Wednesdays by Sonia Bahl (Fingerprint!; Rs 299) falls in the latter category for the sheer connect it manages to establish with the reader right from the beginning. The story of this […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha First, an honest confession. When Demons & Demigods: Death Penalty in India (Oxford University Press; Rs 495) first reached me, I thought: “Another lawyer, and one with a criminal background, attempting to move out of the confines of a courtroom to write a book? Surely, must be drab and boring. Must have talked […]Read More
Team L&M Sat Shri Akaal. For 60 long years, I was relegated to a dusty shelf in a library in England. It were the untiring efforts of the family of my author, Nanak Singh, the famous Punjabi novelist, that I managed to reach my Motherland and saw the light of the day. I was released […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha Writers, as most of us know, get inspired from real-life people and real-life incidents, though only occasionally, to weave them into their creative works. Their aim is to highlight the happenstances up, close and personal, some of which get lost in the black & whites of daily newspapers or get buried under the […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha Mystical Tales For A Magical Life, authored by TEDx speaker, lifestyle coach, storyteller and author Shubha Vilas. Don’t know if you are aware that the Vedic texts are a wellspring of stories, of lessons, of tales that never get old. I came across this collection of stories that everyone in the family can […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha Ramayana is the saga of Lord Rama’s life. It is one of the greatest Indian epics offering not just lessons on statecraft and administration that transcend time and space but also on life and relationships. These are as relevant today as they were back then. My naani (maternal grandmother) often turned to […]Read More