Laxmi Sehgal

Fifty six years after she joined the INA (Indian National Army) and fought the British in the jungles of Burma, Capt. Laxmi Sehgal has the same spirit as she fights the apathy and ignorance of her patients. And society.  At 87 she is a practicing doctor in Kanpur. 

Mira Nair's 'Monsoon Wedding' won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival last month.  Critics are calling her a worthy successor to contemporary directors like Hanif Kureishi and Damien O'Donnel who have portrayed the dilemma of immigrant Indians in the west. But few have done it as powerfully as this Harvard-educated filmmaker

 
Celebrated photographer Ashok Dilwali’s new book - Vedas: An Essence-- A Picture Book Of Himalayas And Verses From The Vedas -  is a pictorial union of Vedic verses and grandeur of the Himalayan ranges. The writer-photographer brings out the essence of the Vedas in nature through his stunning shots of the mountains