#hookedonbooks

Meghna Pant is a multiple award-winning author, journalist, feminist and speaker. Her books-How to Get Published in India, Feminist Rani, The Trouble with Women, Happy Birthday and One & a Half Wife-have been published to commercial and critical acclaim. Pant has been felicitated with various honours and her works have been shortlisted for distinguished contribution to literature, gender issues and journalism, including the Bharat Nirman Award, Laadli Media Award, FICCI Young Achiever’s Award, The Lifestyle Journalist Women Achievers’ Award, FON South Asia Short Story Award, Muse India Young Writer Award, Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, Frank O’Connor International Award and the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Thirty-four-year-old Ladoo, a simple middle-class divorcée from Rishikesh, wants only one thing from life--a baby. She eats gondh halwa, drinks badam milk, and takes folic acid, to stop her ticking biological clock and become the world's most fertile woman. When an accidental meeting with a gynaecologist reveals that her 'eggs are drying up and finding a sperm donor is her last chance of having a child, Ladoo races against time to find the right baby daddy, whose kundali matches her while addressing her own mixed feelings about whether Mr Right Donor can also be Mr Right. Listen to her discussing her latest book with Sidharth Jain in the podcast Hooked on Books on the RedFM India App.

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London has emerged as a safe haven for those who want to escape the law in India. Through eyewitness accounts and archival records, DANISH KHAN and RUHI KHANdelve into twelve extraordinary cases of extradition over seven decades to unravel the legal quagmire that has caused much debate in Her Majesty’s courts and consternation in New Delhi’s corridors of power. Escaped decodes why London is an irresistible siren for Indian fugitives.

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Charmaine D'Souza is a consultant nutritionist with more than twenty years of experience in assisting clients who are interested in improving their health through better nutrition and natural care. Her vast and diverse network of clients includes celebrities and industrialists, all bound by the common cause of good health, the natural way.

Preparing a meal for someone is an act of love, says Charmaine D'Souza, a nutritionist, and a writer of many kitchen exploits. Her latest cookbook, Good Health Always, provides a variety of Ayurvedic recipes with comprehensive nutritional values of ingredients, which make your meals healthier and more delicious. Indian Ayurvedic diets incorporate therapeutic herbs, spices and condiments in chutneys, gravies, pickles and other dishes to make our food truly medicinal. A healthy meal helps heal the stomach and the gut, ensuring a good health always.

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