Reviews & Musings

  Image Source: Amazon.in Publisher ‏ : ‎ Amaryllis  Year: 2021 ISBN ‏ : ‎ 978-9390924080  About the Book  When Kamla Malik's husband Nihar dies of a heart attack in Goa, she’s devastated. Haunted by the lack of closure, she tries mediums, séances, and Ouija boards to help her establish contact. All she wants is a final goodbye. She tries to find him in the twisted labyrinthine worlds that he now inhabits, but does she really want him back, and worse if she finds him, will he let her go? Or is she, as the doctors believe, living in the tunnels of her mind, making it impossible for her to distinguish hallucination from reality? Coincidentally, her eccentric and ailing maternal aunt invites her to visit her splendidly isolated and crumbling villa in Goa.  Here, Kamla meets Victor, her aunt’s stepson. He stakes his claim over the villa and with it, over Kamla. While she accepts that Victor is her here and now, why does Nihar continue to torment her? Is she doome...

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Namrata reviews Ritu Menon’s publishing memoir, Address Book (Women Unlimited, 2021) calling it ticketless travel especially in these dark times when we are all couped up in our homes.  Published by: Women Unlimited  Year: 2021  Price: INR 300  As I held, Address Book, Ritu Menon’s publishing memoir in the time of COVID, I could feel the excitement building in my heart and mind. Here was a person who has been a part of the publishing industry for more than three decades. Known as a feminist publisher, she has published some of the most iconic titles under her publishing house, apart from writing some brilliant books herself. In short, here was someone who had witnessed this industry grows and become what it is today. Imagine the stories she had to share! Read the full review on Kitaab .