Journeys Into The Mind – A panel discussion with this title has the widest canvas to work with – all of human life and its quirks are its mandate, because as Descartes said, “Cogito ergo sum, or, I think, therefore I am.” It is our mind that makes or unmakes the world to us, and […]

Looking back, I feel there was a certain kind of idealism in my teenage years. In that, I jumped directly from the world of a boy wizard to the dark underbelly of Sidney Sheldon’s mystery novels and from that to raspy blondes in popular romantic novels, damsels waiting to be rescued by tall and handsome […]

Fiction is often meant to entertain or convey an author’s point of view. However, in ‘Mrs C Remembers,’ author Himanjali Sankar manages to do both. On December 6th Himanjali joined us for a stimulating discussion about her writing journey, books and more. She was in conversation with noted author Sujata Parashar. Himanjali grew up in […]

In Himanjali Sankar’s book Mrs C Remembers, two narratives – that of  Mrs Chatterjee, the devoted wife of a successful lawyer in Kolkata and her artist daughter Sohini – albeit at times contradicting, run seamlessly parallel to each other. The protagonist of the story is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, and Sankar’s mother has Alzheimer’s so she […]