Saurabh Tankha When you are born in a family with a well-known critic and essayist in Malayalam literature as your grandfather (MP Paul) and renowned novelists and playwrights as an aunt and uncle (Rosy and CJ Thomas), you seem to develop love for literature automatically. May be the reason why Mathew Vincent Menacherry is writing […]Read More
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Saurabh Tankha Subtly juxtaposed on the life Jayadeva, the famous 12th century poet and author of Gita Govinda, Sahitya Akademi award longlisted poet, playwright and novelist Raj Supe’s When Life Cartwheels (Platinum Press) is a passionate love story is, as the author writes “born of the churning confluence of two polar opposites – a vivacious […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha Novelist-academician-literary critic Saikat Majumdar recently came out with his latest work, The Scent Of God. Born in Kolkata and educated in India and the US, Majumdar, after teaching stints in the US and Canada, is now a professor of creative writing and English at Ashoka University. We spoke to Majumdar about The Scent […]Read More
Saurabh Tankha Born and raised in Mumbai, Vikram Paralkar is a physician-scientist at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, USA. In 2017, his book The Wounds of the Dead was published by HarperCollins India in 2017. His latest work, The Afflictions, first published in 2014 in the US has now released in India. It has also been translated […]Read More
Rajkumari Sharma Tankha I have always loved reading classics. Over the years, I’ve immersed myself in the works of Rabindranath Tagore, Saratchandra Chattopadhyay, Munshi Premchand, Amrita Pritam and Mahadevi Verma. Among them, Saratchandra remains my absolute favourite. His storytelling, especially the subtle romance woven into his narratives, touches the deepest chords of my heart. My […]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