Team L&M Two days back, on May 11, we celebrated the Somnath Swabhiman Parv, marking the 1000 years since the first recorded attack occurred in 1026. The day also marks 75 years since its modern reopening in 1951. This observance is not merely ceremonial. It is a reflection on endurance—on how faith, culture, and collective […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha History often consigns its most extraordinary stories to the margins. The grand narratives of collapsing empires, nationalist awakenings and political realignments dominate our understanding of the past. But, the more improbable subplots slip quietly into obscurity. And, The Indian Caliphate by Imran Mulla is a bid to resurrect one such forgotten episode […]Read More
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
Dr Sukriti Tankha Main chauraasi ki ladki hun (I am a woman who has survived 1984). This single line, spoken by a Sikh woman who lived through the 1984 anti-Sikh genocide in Delhi, sets the tone for what follows. It is powerful, haunting, and enough to hint at the unimaginable trauma she endured. Even after […]Read More
Team L&M Come June 2, readers will witness a historic literary moment as author Tushar Gandhi, great-grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, launches his first book on his great-grandmother Kasturba Gandhi titled The Lost Diary of Kastur: My Ba. The Lost Diary of Kastur, My Ba Kasturba Gandhi in Her Own Words The book presents the only […]Read More
Team L&M Author Rajesh Talwar who recently came out with a play, The Boy Who Wrote a Constitution, on Bhim Rao Ambedkar for children, tells Life & More why he felt compelled to write it. “The Boy Who Wrote a Constitution is a fact-based drama based largely on Ambedkar’s own recollection of his childhood. Much […]Read More
ajkumari Sharma Tankha Destiny’s Child: The Undefeatable Reign of Cochin’s Parukutty Neithyaramma is an intimate account of the extraordinary life of Parukutty Nethyaramma, one of the most powerful rulers of the Kingdom of Cochin. Married at 14 to a man 17 years her senior did not, in any way, limit her. In fact, she created […]Read More
As the nation kick-starts the year-long celebrations of the 125th birth anniversary of Subhas Chandra Bose today (Jan 23, 2021), we bring you an interview with author Rajesh Talwar, who challenges the long-held narrative of Bose’s alleged death in an air crash. In his book, The Vanishing of Subhash Bose: The Mystery Unlocked (Kalpaz Publications), Talwar argues […]Read More
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