Rajkumari Sharma Tankha It is tough to classify The Indian Café in London into a single genre. Is it a cookbook, a travel narrative, a suspenseful story, or a layered relationship drama? The answer is—everything and more. A rich blend of love and loss, intergenerational relationships, identity, and the aspirations of young individuals navigating parental […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha Born in the ancient city of Meerut in western Uttar Pradesh (India), into a humble, middle-class family, Ashish Khetarpal had an ordinary childhood. Meerut, he says, during his growing up years was not a very peaceful city to live in. The experience of the disturbing incidents happening on a regular basis in […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha Author Agatha Christie worked as a full-time pharmacist assistant and Pulitzer prize winning poet Wallace Stevens was as an insurance executive. So it doesn’t come as a surprise to find DR SIDDHARTH NIRWAN, an ENT consultant and assistant professor at Jaipur’s SMS Medical College & Hospital, penning books on horror. Born to a […]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
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha At first glance Hemis, Madhu Tandan’s latest novel, appears to be a simple story of marital discord. To escape daily fights with his wife Swati, the protagonist Ajay plans a trip to Ladakh. He believes the trip will give him breathing space. It will also help him reflect on his relationship. But […]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) have uncanny resemblance to the classic M&B romances (wherein the male […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha Why I picked up The Sellout Nation …a Tryst with Globalisation (Notion Press) by Vikram Bhati is because I was thoroughly exhausted of the number of chick lit romances I was deluged with. I wanted something different, and the blurb on the back cover promised me that. And I must say, I […]Read More
Sukriti Tankha Conventionally, a sequel does not always get its creator the accolades or recognition achieved by the original work. But exceptions exist. Manoj V Jain’s fourth novel, a sequel to his third creation Balraj, is one such exception. In the author’s note, Jain mentions receiving numerous messages asking about Ramona’s fate after Balraj left […]Read More
Team L&M If you’ve ever visited a Tibetan market in India, you’ve likely picked up warm woollen shawls or enjoyed steaming, spicy momos. These vibrant marketplaces are a familiar sight across cities—but have you ever paused to think about the lives behind them? The story of Tibetan refugees in India is one of resilience, identity, […]Read More
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