She uses Indian classical music to help working professionals and students explore its potential for enhancing creativity, focusing concentration, destressing, managing moods and emotions. She is a one-of-a-kind Indian artiste practicing this alternative method and is changing the mental wellness scenario of the country. Saurabh Tankha had a chat with Nithya Rajendran… How can Indian classical […]Read More
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Saurabh Tankha When there are two national film awardees at home and you want to make a career in movies, life seems sorted. But not when you are born to renowned Oriya editor-director Gadadhar and writer-producer Padmini Puty. “Since I knew the people I had to chase to get work when I wanted to work […]Read More
In an interview with www.lifeandmore.in, actor PREETI JHANGIANI tells Saurabh Tankha as to how she and her actor-husband PARVIN DABBAS went about organising the first-ever Pro Panja League “Panja ladayega? (ready for arm wrestling?)” — the image of yesteryear comedienne Tuntun sitting on a cot and posing this question to tragedy king Dilip Kumar is still as […]Read More
Shot in a single, 10-day trip through the Spiti Valley, these images are a trifecta of the region’s wild beauty, a photographer’s control and the optics of the Leica M camera. All these 25 photographs, part of an exhibition, Light and Lines in the Middle Land: A Monochrome Journey Through the Spiti Valley, showcase tones […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha Have you ever wondered why the maximum number of wrestlers come from the state of Haryana? If wrestler and world peace activist Labhanshu Sharma is to be believed, it happens not only because the denizens of northern state are stronger genetically. Also, they own cattle that gets them easy access to quality milk-ghee-curd […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha SUDHARAK OLWE says he believes in visiting villages – to see the country in its rawest form, interact with people there and understand their lives and issues. Along with this, a good amount of time, he says, needs to be spent seeing other people’s works and talking to them. The Akola-born photojournalist, recipient of […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha At a time when the country did not have laws against sexual harassment and child sexual abuse, this capacity building organisation worked to create these laws. Recently, as a step towards a solution to #StopChildSexualAbuse, the Directorate of NSS, Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports directed Sakshi (Regd. NGO 1992) to launch The Rakshin Project aimed at […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha She doesn’t just come from an illustrious filmi family with a producer father, an actor uncle, actor-director aunt and actor cousins. To her credit is being one among four Indians selected for the British Council’s Future Leaders Connect programme, a global leadership network for emerging young leaders (18-35 years) from around the world […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha Deep-rooted memories from her childhood days — having watched her mother and other women relatives performing Chhat Puja* — have been beautifully replicated on the canvas. Meet Vandana Dubey, the 47-year-old artist, born in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghazipur district to a government school principal father and a homemaker mother, who says each and every […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha Be it the denial of jobs or discrimination in society, she has highlighted issues and concerns of Transgenders. Her aim is to create a Trans-phobia free India and sensitise kids, youth and parents on gender sensitisation. She wishes to make Trans women self-sufficient and self-reliant. The founder-chairperson of Deepa Ardnareshwar Empowerment Foundation, an […]Read More