Saurabh Tankha Life took a turn when she quit her Infosys job of six years to pursue filmmaking. Though she commits of not being sure if she had it in her to become a filmmaker, especially in the absence of “connections” in the film industry, Roopa Rao happens to be the writer-director of the country’s […]Read More
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Saurabh Tankha Her tryst with drawing, sketching and colours began when she was 11. Soon, she realised that her most favourite place to be in at school was the art room. Greatly influenced in her colour use by legends like Amrita Sher-gil and MF Husain, she is now ready with her 15th solo art exhibition, […]Read More
FP Souza, the son of Francis Newton Souza, shares thoughts on the legendary artist Saurabh Tankha Come April 5 and the best of Francis Newton Souza’s works ever will appear for any auction. A legend and founding member of the Progressive Artist’s group in Bombay during 1947 era, a leading member of the Indian avant-garde, […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha Born to legendary santoor player Padma Vibhushan Pt Shivkumar Sharma, Rahul Sharma was just 13 when he picked up the instrument his father had been associated with since his teenage days too. An Economics graduate, Rahul will be performing at the 72nd edition of Shriram Shankarlal Music Festival in the National Capital tomorrow, […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha The rice beer bellies of a Christian village in Meghalaya; food fed to departed Zoroastrian souls; a Kolkata-based Jewish community in decline; Tibetan monks who first serve Preta, the hungry ghost; and 56-course feasts of the Jagannath Temple — these are the stories in Bhagwan Ke Pakwaan (or food of the gods), a cookbook-cum-travelogue exploring the connection between […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha Considered among the most talented rappers in the country and a pioneer in the rap scene in India, Delhi-NCR-based rapper KR$NA is now featuring in Zoya Akhtar directed Gully Boy which is all set for release tomorrow. We had a chat with the young rapper… How did you land up with the song in Gully Boy? […]Read More
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
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