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
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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
Saurabh Tankha Was he sane? Was he a psychopath? What (and not who) was he? — These are questions that keep striking you days after reading The Sane Psychopath (Fingerprint Publishing; 240 pages; Rs 199) from cover to cover. And even as you keep wondering as to who can get you the answers to these […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha Bhupen Patel is an investigative journalist, credited with many a scoops. In the course of his career, he exposed many kinds of crimes ranging from mental asylum admitting patients without proper scrutiny, ‘film producers’ fleecing wannabe actors and actresses in the name of making movies to agents who arrange for temporary wives for […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha Trisha Das’ Kama’s Last Sutra (Harper Collins, Rs 299, Pages 299) is a feminist fantasy novel that travels across time, foregrounds women’s sexual agency, challenges gender roles, sexual taboos and caste divisions. Protagonist Tara Singh, an archaeologist, is on an excavation project in the ruins near Khajuraho, hoping to unearth a new temple […]Read More
Team L&M Books play a very crucial role in everyone’s life, more so that of kids. As they say, books are considered man’s best friend — the wealth of knowledge they give is unparalleled. There are few publishers that have dedicated themselves for children, and Katha Books, founded by Padma Shri Geeta Dharmrajan in 1988, is one […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha Lest you are mistaken, Debeshi Gooptu’s Gurgaon Diaries (Rupa, 226 pages, Rs 295) is not in a diary format despite its title. Rather it is a collection of small stories, anecdotes to be precise, presented randomly — each one driving home the point that in spite of being an IT hub sporting […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha Dev, an 11-year-old boy, is dejected after his father passes away. He cannot come to the terms of his father’s death and takes out his anger on his mother as well as younger brother, and in turn, becomes sad. Then, he meets Sanjay who not only teaches him how to deal with […]Read More