Rajkumari Sharma Tankha After getting a tremendous response to the Demons of Jaitraya, her first book in the trilogy on the battle between humans and demons, author Shubira Prasad is now back with The Angels of Kailash (Vitasta Publishing). While The Demons of Jaitraya results in the total annihilation of The Gurukul, protagonists Aishani and Adheesh have to come back stronger to reclaim what belongs to […]Read More
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Rajkumari Sharma Tankha Literature and art always fascinated her. An avid reader since her early childhood, she contributed stories and poems in various publications. But her life path was chartered by her father who wanted her to become a doctor and serve rural areas where access to medicare was scarce. So, rather than going the […]Read More
Sukriti Tankha Dietician Kavita Devgan’s latest offering The Don’t Diet Plan (Rupa Publishing) is a no-nonsense guide to weight-loss in which she tells you ways and means of achieving a healthy and fit body. A firm believer that a permanent weightloss can only be achieved by changing how and when we eat what we eat, […]Read More
Sukriti Tankha Agnibaan – the Guardians of Fire Chamber (TreeShade Books, 336 pages), by S Venkatesh, as the name indicates promises a thrilling experience – from the front cover to the back, the book keeps you on an edge with its sharp twists and turns. Spanning between 535CE to the present day, the coherently written […]Read More
Team L&M Richa Gupta’s new book The Jamun Tree and Other Stories (Bridging Borders), the fourth one by her, is also a reflection of life through diverse characters and stories ranging from an almost-human Jamun tree to a journalist looking for a scoop and an investigator resolving a mysterious murder. An anthology that dissects and […]Read More
Team L&M How did Indian mulmul make it into Cleopatra’s wardrobe? Who popularised the Mahabharata in households across the country? Did our ancestors really identify Jupiter and Saturn without even a telescope? Find the answers to these and many other unusual questions about the India of yesterday in the posthumous publication and last work for […]Read More
Sukriti Tankha The Biography of a Failed Venture is an account of learning from mistakes. It is the story of an Indian sports brand D:FY that Prashant Desai started in 2017, but couldn’t take it to success. In less than three years he lost everything he had earned in the three decades of his professional […]Read More
The Slow Disappearing, by Poonam Chawla, is a deftly crafted plot about a family, both frozen in time and careening into an uncertain future. A mother in the throes of dementia fears the loss of words over the loss of life. The protagonist, trapped in her new role as the reluctant caregiver. A rebel sister […]Read More
Anurag Kaul At the Horizon of Life & Death by Dr Pankaj Kumar, an internist and Director, Critical Care at Fortis Hospital in Shalimar Bagh, Delhi throws light on the relationship between doctors and critical patients (those who face death). It has 20 short stories, each talking about the psyche of a doctor, what he […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha I’ve always had this special place for crime thrillers, both in my heart and in my library. From The Frozen Dead (Bernard Minier) to Thirteen Hours (Deon Meyer) to Hypothermia (Aranldur Indridason) and The Vault (Ruth Rendell) to Critical Mass (Sara Paretsky) to Before I Go To Sleep (SJ Watson), these releases over […]Read More