Isn’t this August, the month India gained Independence? For when in the same month the country gained Independence, the voice of its citizens was silenced due to pressures from the same quarters from whose clutches it managed to break free. In such a scenario, what does one do? Where does one go? These were the […]Read More
Team L&M For those of you who travelled aboard Indian Railways during the 80s and the early 90s would surely remember the messages on the outer walls of houses running parallel to the railway tracks. The ones that seemingly never-ended and stated: Rishte hi rishte mil toh lein, ** Regarpura… Perhaps the most innovative way […]Read More
For us Indians, Pokhran means the site of the country’s first nuclear tests. But what many don’t know is that this village in Rajasthan’s Jaisalmer district had to face the lasting negative impact as a result of these tests. Why? Because this went largely unreported by the media. Economist-engineer-philosopher Uday Singh has debuted as an […]Read More
Team L&M Books are often much more than the written words. They are shaped by the experiences of authors and there is a fascinating story behind every published book. To give its readers more about books and authors and recommend activities which they will love to follow, Pan Macmillan recently introduced Reading Space. The idea […]Read More
Garima Batra We have been in quarantine for over a week now and some of us are bored. Bored of having nothing to do, isn’t it? For those nodding their heads in denial must have been ‘busy’ counting the number of tiles in their bathroom or the number of times the fan rotates before finally […]Read More
Team L&M There are some stories you read once and forget. Then there are a select few tales you love going back to time and again. So it happens with the stories of famous court jester of Sri Krishnadevaraya, the emperor of Vijayanagara empire — Tenali Raman or Tenali Rama. One of the eight poets […]Read More
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 Juggernaut has partnered with Hubhopper to create India’s first celebrity audio show for kids where actor Soha Ali Khan will read eight handpicked stories written by Indian authors. The stories are from Juggernaut Books, HarperCollins, Scholastic, Hachette, Rupa Publications, Pratham Books and Karadi Tales. The idea is to encourage the habit of reading […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha When a corporate lawyer pens a crime thriller, you expect it to have courtroom drama which the third novel of Bommadevara Sai Chandravadhan, who writes under the pen name of Vadhan, has. But then Fear of God (TreeShade Books; Rs 350) reiterates the key questions in the context of present times — what […]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
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