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Rakshabandhan – Do our women need protection

UncategorizedAugust 10, 2022429Views 0Likes 0Comments

In a true sense signifying bond and security, Rakshabandhan is an exceptional connection between a brother and his sister. The celebration is observed on the full-moon day or Poornima as per the Hindu calendar month of Shravan. However, like Vase Sarmah will agree, do women need men to protect them?! Sarmah is a young Indian…

Jewels of India: Leading Indo-Canadian Personalities: A lighthouse erected in the great sea of time

UncategorizedApril 7, 2022542Views 0Likes 0Comments

Canada has the world’s eighth largest Indian diaspora – and the majority are foreign-born. In 1904, the first documented Indian immigrants arrived in Canada and carved out the space for themselves from scratch. Today, a vast majority of them are leading businessmen, scientists, artists, writers, philanthropists and academics, adopting the Canadian lifestyle, keeping Indian traditions…

Dearth of employment for Trans-people in India

UncategorizedApril 2, 2022430Views 0Likes 0Comments

Our society is deeply structured with sex and gender. The categorisation of people as ‘male’ or ‘female’ permeates our society on every level. The rights of transgenders have been reaffirmed to be at par with the rights of heterosexual people, as enshrined under the Constitution of India. With the growing economy, question emerges as to…

The Untold Story of Jagmohan ‘Jag’ Humar, The Savior Jain in Canada

UncategorizedDecember 9, 2020585Views 0Likes 0Comments

Jagmohan Humar. An unheard name in India. A lesser-known name in Canada. An Indo-Canadian with an amazing list of achievements behind him. The author of a highly recommended and appreciated book on structural ynamics, yet Rajasthanis in the USA don’t know him to be a Rajasthani. Here’s sharing with you the untold story of Jagmohan…

Celebrate This Independence Day with Coffee Table Books!

UncategorizedAugust 21, 2020371Views 0Likes 0Comments

This is our week… the week of India’s independence. There is no sure shot survey for this, yet, we as a nation can definitely feel a surge in loyalty to our nation. However, every 26 January and 15 August, it hurts to see several small-sized Indian flags lying in waste. I have a win-win suggestion…

Why are personalized books the latest trend?

UncategorizedAugust 5, 2020471Views 0Likes 0Comments

When Maneesh Media was started 20 years back, it was started with the idea of writing about the unheard of success stories of the Indian diaspora. We never knew these stories that amazed us could inspire others. We started with publishing coffee-table books, gradually getting head-on with personalized books as well. Getting to do personalized…

Coffee-table Books Do the Talking!

UncategorizedJune 10, 20201KViews 0Likes 0Comments

A different species is always an excitement to study. For me, books too have different species; people call it different genres. Among all the genres, I find reading coffee table books the easiest. They are big and beautiful; they have a lot of pictures. They are a complete show-off thing. Place a few in your…

Buy These Coffee Table Books Online to Learn Minimalistic Lifestyle!

UncategorizedMay 29, 2020304Views 0Likes 0Comments

With the current situation, do we imagine getting back into the same world that we were in? All these days of lockdown have taught us to lead a minimalistic lifestyle. And as we live minimalistically, it is wonderful how the nature has revived itself. Conscious, careful, cautious are the new buzz words for human lives,…

The Pandemic Makes Online Book Shopping a Heaven

UncategorizedMay 20, 2020261Views 0Likes 0Comments

Scenario 1: Last minute panic at work. Boss wants you to stay longer, you want to rush out. You try to hurriedly finish it up, but once again… you stay back! You are at work the next morning trying to finish all your tasks. You somehow manage to, though a bit late. You drive, or…

See-Saw weather brings own kind of magic

UncategorizedMay 18, 2020302Views 0Likes 0Comments

Ever since the Corona Lockdown came into force across the country, the weather has turned out to be an absolute charmer, although true to its natural temperament of caprice, impulse and uncertainty. Yes, uncertainty is usually a key factor in the way weather tends to behave. But since the last two-three months, we’ve been experiencing…

Coffee-table books say it differently

UncategorizedMay 15, 2020388Views 0Likes 0Comments

They say that a picture or a visual image is worth more than a thousand words. That is why long before speech and writing became integral communication tools that gave civilisations a quantum leap, primitive man just drew everything he wanted to ‘talk about’. A lot of what we know about early man is largely…

Shades of a ‘Grey Ghost’!

UncategorizedMay 7, 2020312Views 0Likes 0Comments

I don’t know how to begin telling this story. It’s a strange and mysterious tale, almost like a ghost story. But then again I wonder if there is such a thing as ghosts of birds and animals, or of humans, for that matter. I mean, one can’t be too sure about such things. But I…