Team L&M The good old days of community living, totally absent today, makes her deeply nostalgic. An utter absence of colourful and unique indigenous architecture bothers her no end. And because she couldn’t do anything about creating old architecture, artist Kavita Chopra Dikshit did the next best thing she could — create artworks that depict […]Read More
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Author-teacher Reshma K Barshikar on her latest creative venture, her life, why is it important to write fiction for young adults and while at it, she makes a few honest confessions… On my book, The Hidden Children The Hidden Children is about a girl who wants to speak to a butterfly, and how far she […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha Novelist-academician-literary critic Saikat Majumdar recently came out with his latest work, The Scent Of God. Born in Kolkata and educated in India and the US, Majumdar, after teaching stints in the US and Canada, is now a professor of creative writing and English at Ashoka University. We spoke to Majumdar about The Scent […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha Born and raised in Mumbai, Vikram Paralkar is a physician-scientist at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, USA. In 2017, his book The Wounds of the Dead was published by HarperCollins India in 2017. His latest work, The Afflictions, first published in 2014 in the US has now released in India. It has also been translated […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha One is a private pilot licence holder who turned to media before staring a digital firm. The other is a middle-class Maharashtrian who learnt guitar with the help of a book. The third is a school teacher who loves to train students with music skills. The trio — singer-guitarist Aditya Jassi, singer-guitarist Manish […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha The elder son of popular music composer late Adesh Shrivastava and actress Vijayta Pandit, Avitesh is the latest star kid to debut in the entertainment industry. The 21-year-old recently released his maiden music video, Main Hua Tera. Directed by Remo D’Souza, the video has been made in collaboration with two-time Grammy Award winner […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha Noted Carnatic music singer V Deepika will be performing with her guru, vocalist Sudha Raghunathan at the eighth edition of Citi-NCPA Aadi Anant: From Here to Eternity Music Festival on January 20, 2019 at Chowdiah Memorial Hall, Bengaluru. Spread across four cities: Pune, Mumbai, Chennai and Bengaluru, the three-month long festival is one […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha Noted flautist Rupak Kulkarni will be playing with his guru, Pt Hariprasad Chaurasia, at the eighth edition of Citi-NCPA Aadi Anant: From Here to Eternity Music Festival beginning November 18. Spread across four cities: Pune, Mumbai, Chennai and Bengaluru, the three-month long festival is one of the most highly anticipated events of the […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha The winner of four major international violin competitions: Wieniawski (1986), Queen Elizabeth (1989), Tchaikovsky (1990) and Henryk Szeryng Foundation Award (1992), Evgeny Bushkov is one of the most interesting conductors around the world. Bushkov made his debut in 1999 in France with the Orchestra of the International Festival of Luxeuil and is, at […]Read More
Team L&M British-born-Indian author Sonal Sachdev Patel recently released her latest book, GITA: The Battle of the Worlds (HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks, Fiction, Rs 250, 104 pages). Based on Paramahansa Yogananda’s interpretation of the Gita, the book covers some of the key spiritual messages within a fictional adventure story+ for children. It is a modern-day instructional manual that […]Read More