Book Review: Address Book – A Publishing Memoir in the time of COVID by Ritu Menon

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!

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For a long time, cinema was a world I wasn’t allowed to enter. I grew up in a home where movies were banned. No television, no glimpses of silver screens, and no songs echoing from old classics. For nearly a decade, cinema was a forbidden word like a secret behind a closed door. And yet, like all things that carry truth and longing, it found its way to me. Stories have a way of finding you, slipping through cracks, whispered between pages, caught in melodies. Sometimes through the corners of borrowed books, sometimes through whispered summaries from classmates, sometimes just through the magnetic pull of posters and songs I wasn’t supposed to hear.

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