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
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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
Saurabh Tankha Author SUTAPA BASU credits her parents – Army officer father and homemaker mother – to have inculcated the habit of writing in her. Surprisingly, the English Literature graduate from Santiniketan and holder of two post-graduate degrees, in English literature and education, feels her younger brother, an advertising professional, and sister, part of […]Read More
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