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
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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
Author S Venkatesh’s debut book enters book-to-screen adaptation deal Saurabh Tankha Acclaimed for its combination of conspiracy, history, mythology and science, Amazon #1 bestselling thriller last year, KaalKoot – The Lost Himalayan Secret, has entered into a book-to-screen adaptation optioning deal with a Hindi film producer. Penned by debutant author S Venkatesh, KaalKoot has loads of twists and […]Read More