Team L&M The reason of my picking up Ghosts of the Silent Hills from the shelf of that crowded CP bookshop was its title. Ghost stories have always aroused a feeling of wanting to know more about the unknown. And the added line on the cover – Stories based on true hauntings – furthered the […]Read More
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Team L&M Spirituality changes the way one looks at life was something I had always heard about but never believed in. Till one day, I had a chance encounter with spirituality and it ushered in a change in my life. This happened around three years back. Even as was I slowly adapting to this new […]Read More
Team L&M One of the reasons of my picking up Make Your Own Luck (MYOL) by Bob Miglani and Rehan Yar Khan (Fingerprint!; non-fiction; Rs 250) was the quote on its cover by someone I had the opportunity of working with over two decades back. This was at The Pioneer in New Delhi. Must have […]Read More
Team L&M If someone tells you that the past doesn’t haunt you, never believe it. The person must be making a fool out of you. Like our present, the past has been a part of our life and as author Mayank Manohar mentions in his debut fictional work, Shadow Of The Past (Fingerprint; Rs 199; Pages 168), Life […]Read More
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
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