Former chief election commissioner and opinion-maker DR SY QURAISHI, through his book – The Population Myth:Islam, Family Planning and Politics in India (Harper Collins, Rs 499, 336 pages) – evaluates India’s demographics from a religious perspective, to bust myths of a skew towards any particular religion. He talks to SAURABH TANKHA about politics over population, […]Read More
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World-renowned diabetologist Padma Shri DR V MOHAN tells SAURABH TANKHA about the gap in demand and supply of diabetes treatment facilities in India, how challenging it is to be a doctor-preneur, solutions to counter diabetes, his life and more… His name is synonymous with diabetes and diabetology in India. He has established one of […]Read More
Hoping to help people open up their lives to a myriad of opportunities, writer and life coach ADITYA NATH has come up with his maiden book, Awaken Your Soulprint (Rupa Publications; Rs 295; 200 pages). This book, says Nath, postulates the concept of soulful living, a spiritually evolved way of modern-day thinking, based on the […]Read More
Former DGP and adviser to the Governor of Uttarakhand ALOKE LAL, in an interview with SAURABH TANKHA, talks about the demolition of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya being a monumental failure of the security forces, those who deserve to be brought to justice are protected and losing some comrades to violence. All this and more […]Read More
It was during the pandemic lockdown that MAHESH RAJAN commenced his writing journey with a short story to escape the mundane lockdown everyday life. He got encouraged when his stories and story ideas were acknowledged by the people he shared the stories with. Rajan believes his zest for writing is rooted in his story ideas […]Read More
A chemical engineer who works with a risk management firm, Prachand Praveer took to writing in his childhood days to express himself, beginning with small stories at first. In 2010, his first Hindi novel, Alpahari Grihatyagi: IIT Se Pahle was published by Harper Hindi. His second book, Abhinav Cinema, published by Dakhal Prakashan in 2016, […]Read More
Team L&M As a genre, speculative fiction, has created a place for itself in the book reading market. It is an umbrella genre that encompasses the sub-genres of the fiction category. While there is still an ongoing debate about its clear definition, the genre is constantly evolving and will witness an increase in preference by […]Read More
Noted author, journalist, translator and theatre critic SHANTA GOKHALE recently translated Shyamchi Aai (Puffin Classics), considered to be the greatest tribute to mother’s love in Marathi literature. The octogenarian writer talks to SAURABH TANKHA about transformations in theatre over the last six decades, the most difficult part of artistic process, the role her mother played […]Read More
As the nation kick-starts the year-long celebrations of the 125th birth anniversary of NETAJI SUBHASH CHANDRA BOSE today (Jan 23, 2021), we bring you an interview with author RAJESH TALWAR who clears the air about Bose’s alleged death in an air crash, stating it all to be a made-up story in his book, The Vanishing […]Read More
Former journalist-turned-social entrepreneur BISWAJIT JHA talks to SAURABH TANKHA about what made him choose tea garden labourer Karimul Hak as the protagonist for his debut novel, Bike Ambulance Dada (Penguin Random House India). When did it occur to you that the story of Karimul Hak should reach out to people in the form of a […]Read More