Category: Arts & Culture

Mumbai’s celebrated literature festival Tata Literature Live! The Mumbai LitFest, which is now in its 11th year has adopted a virtual format due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic this year. The festival, which will also incorporate an entertaining Children’s Festival for two days, will be held for a week this time, with this edition hosting…

In these unprecedented times, when isolation fatigue, gloom and the fear of losing a beloved has also come to grip children, taking care of their mental health is of paramount importance…writes Siddhi Jain. Here’s a list of books that address the various emotions children struggle with, and can be companions to them during the hard…

Was Rajiv Gandhi the victim of “international intelligence agencies” in “what was to become” of him after the 1991 General Elections that were likely to see him return to power after being unceremoniously voted out two years previously?…writes Vishnu Makhijani Wajahat Habibullah, who was at school with Rajiv Gandhi, and, as a member of the…

A trained engineer who went to IIM Calcutta, and after a decade long corporate career decided to pause and gift herself some “me time”, not to mention a Creative Writing course in the US later — author Manreet Sodhi Someshwar, whose latest “Girls and the City”, published by HarperCollins India recently hit the stands, has…

Its an ocean as vast as the sub-continent whose name it bears, encompassing Asia to the north, Australia to the east and Africa to the west. With 20 per cent of the water on the Earth’s surface, the sea routes of the Indian Ocean carry 80 per cent of the worlds shipping trade in oil,…

He was twice rejected by one of India’s top FMCG firms when he applied for a job from campus. More than once, he did not get the promotion that he thought he richly deserved. The draft of his first book on advertising cases was rejected as a plug. Several clients, on multiple occasions, rejected campaign…

It began as “panspermia”, a hypothesis that life exists throughout the Universe that was coined by the 5th century BC Greek polymath Anaxagorus. He theorised that the first contaminants – as also other organisms – made their appearance via meteors that had loosened from large stars and plunged down to earth, carrying “seeds everywhere and…

Stories of powerful female leads, explored in a variety of contexts and evocative of a whole spectrum of emotions, make for good reads, just as the country is getting more and more active post the lockdown…writes Siddhi Jain. Apart from the classics, here is a list you can choose from. ‘Mother at Nineteen’ by Gulista…

In a social environment where women giving up professional dreams to put family first is all too common, a new book brings out the story of a couple sharing achievements, and going beyond the notion of “gifting teddy bears and roses to your partner”….writes Siddhi Jain. Emerging author Saranya Umakanthan’s book “One Day, Life Will…

Inspiration amid the ongoing global pandemic can be hard to come by. Taking on these bleak times as a challenge and opportunity for self-discovery, emerging or first-time authors are refining how they think, write and imagine…writes Siddhi Jain.Young author Sanya Khurana, a Tedx speaker and author of “One Action: Towards Women’s Dreams and Ambitions” finds…