Rajkumari Sharma Tankha Part travelogue, part memoir, part family history and imbued with rigorous scholarship, The Other Mohan (HarperCollins Fourth Estate) by author Amrita Shah is not just a labour of love, but also a quest to understand her great-grandfather, Mohanlal, who set sail for South Africa from pre-independent India at the turn of twentieth century. […]Read More
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Rajkumari Sharma Tankha Rising Flame, an NGO working in the disability inclusion space, has published And They Lived… Ever After. The book reimagines 13 popular fairy tales with a powerful and inclusive twist. These stories are written by authors living with disabilities, who weave their lived experiences into each narrative. In conversation with Life & […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha By his own admission, Atul Koul Randev, who recently released his debut book, a financial thriller The Hundred Million Bet (Srishti Publishers), is a writer during the weekends and the occasional weekday evenings – in the opposite of times (i.e. during the weekdays and the occasional weekends), he leads the Strategy, and […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha Born and brought up in Delhi, Vibha Malhotra works as an engineering manager in a software organisation. But at heart, she is a writer, a poetess at that. Last month, she came out with a book of poems, Loveflakes: Memories of Mirages. Excerpts from an interview: So how did a software engineer […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha At a spooky themed resort in Mahabaleshwar, bestselling author Sivan Singh conducts a workshop on advanced horror-writing. On its final day, nine participants, influenced by their eerie experiences during their stay, along with an enigmatic writer, go all out for the story narration competition, Scare Me If You Can. Let your head spin […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha From lights, fans, keys, lipstick and handbags to metaphysical like love, dreams and death are all a part of Sanjana Saksena Chandra’s new collection of poems in a poetry book titled The Universe is Explosive. Launched digitally yesterday, the book is a collection of 99 short poems, each no longer than eight to […]Read More
It is difficult to introduce Richa Gupta. An educationist, an instructional designer, an editor, a corporate trainer and now an author… Who knows what she will do next? But as of now, Richa has come up with her third novel, Slices of Life. While she penned her first one, Phoenix, under the pseudonym Arti Chugpai, […]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) reiterates the key questions in the context of present times — what if fighting […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha It was during a session with his spiritual guru who was explaining the philosophy of Sattva Rajas Tamas and their presence in every human in differing proportions to him that the idea seemed to take root. The first draft — a story of the battle for truth and dharma, for meritocracy over entitlement and avarice — of […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha History would have been written differently if she wouldn’t have been there. The firstborn of King Drupada, she was trained to be a warrior from early childhood. A Rathi, and then an Athirathi, a warrior of unmatched valour and skill, the princess of Panchal singlehandedly defeated the hundred Kaurava brothers in a battle. Though […]Read More