Virtually everyone has heard of Ernest Hemingway. But you’d be hard-pressed to find someone who knows of Ellen N. La Motte. People should. She is the extraordinary World War I nurse who wrote like Hemingway before Hemingway. She was arguably the originator of his famous style – the first to write about World War I […]

Natasha Badhwar was in conversation with Archana Pai Kulkarni at the SheThePeople.TV book club event at Gyan Adab, in Pune. It happens in most stories. The unexpected. The twists and turns. Uncertainty looms large, and suddenly things change, and everything falls into place. It happened last evening too at the SheThePeople.Tv book club event at […]

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 […]

She was james bond in khadi. She was India’s first political supremo. Indira’s politics is what has shaped India’s current wave of leadership style says author and journalist Sagarika Ghose. In her book, Indira Gandhi: India’s most powerful Prime Minister she presents a nuanced portrait of the first woman Prime Minister of our country. Sagarika articulates […]