Team L&M There are some stories which you read and forget. And then there are others which remain with you forever. A Year of Wednesdays by Sonia Bahl (Fingerprint!; Rs 299) falls in the latter category for the sheer connect it manages to establish with the reader right from the beginning. The story of this […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha First, an honest confession. When Demons & Demigods: Death Penalty in India (Oxford University Press; Rs 495) first reached me, I thought: “Another lawyer, and one with a criminal background, attempting to move out of the confines of a courtroom to write a book? Surely, must be drab and boring. Must have talked […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha The rice beer bellies of a Christian village in Meghalaya; food fed to departed Zoroastrian souls; a Kolkata-based Jewish community in decline; Tibetan monks who first serve Preta, the hungry ghost; and 56-course feasts of the Jagannath Temple — these are the stories in Bhagwan Ke Pakwaan (or food of the gods), a cookbook-cum-travelogue exploring the connection between […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha Was he sane? Was he a psychopath? What (and not who) was he? — These are questions that keep striking you days after reading The Sane Psychopath (Fingerprint Publishing; 240 pages; Rs 199) from cover to cover. And even as you keep wondering as to who can get you the answers to these […]Read More
There is a school of thought that believes in the ‘Here and now’, ‘What we sow is what we reap’, they believe. ‘The concept of soul or karma is not a tangible one and nobody has been able to authenticate it yet, so how do I believe in it’, said one of my friends. Promptly, […]Read More
Team L&M Oxford scholar Ashish Jaiswal’s book, fluid, which emerged as the #1 bestseller in educational philosophy on Amazon soon after its pre-order launch, was the subject of discussion Mumbai’s Crossword Bookstores, Kemps Corner. Hailed as a revolutionary book by scholars from Harvard, Yale and Oxford, one of the key premises of fluid is that being uncertain in […]Read More
Sukriti Tankha And The Roses Bled by Mehak Daleh (Fingerprint Publishers, 224 pages, Rs 399) is a story about Alisha and her ability to see and hear ghosts, specifically of her twin sister Nina. Alisha and Nina are twins who love each other immensely and share a special bond, common to all twins. One day, […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha She’s tall, beautiful and one of Bollywood’s leading ladies. He’s goofy, loves to wear outlandish clothes and is constantly getting into trouble with reporters. These two sentences on the back cover of Saranya Rai’s debut novel Love, Take Two (Penguin Books 230 pages Rs 250) have uncanny resemblance to the classic M&B […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha Her debut novel, What About Meera, won the inaugural Minara Aziz Hassim Literary Prize in South Africa and was longlisted for both the Etisalat Prize for Fiction (the most prestigious literary prize for African fiction) and the Sunday Times Barry Ronge Fiction Prize (South Africa’s largest literary award). Her short stories were awarded second prize in […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha Not many of us would know that it was nearly 40 years back, in 1978, that Kishan Mohan Bijli, the father of Ajay Bijli and Sanjeev Bijli of PVR Ltd, bought Priya cinema hall in Basant Lok, New Delhi. However, it was not that the owner of a thriving and one of […]Read More
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