Reviews & Musings

Introduction ISBN: 9788129142146 Genre: Fiction Publishers: Rupa Publishing House Price:  Rs.176/- ( I got this book from the publisher for a review ) Hi, I'm Radhika Mehta and I'm getting married this week. I work at Goldman Sachs, an investment bank. Thank you for reading my story. However, let me warn you. You may not like me too much. One, I make a lot of money. Two, I have an opinion on everything. Three, I have had a boyfriend before. OK, maybe two. Now if all this was the case with a guy, one might be cool with it. But since I am a girl these three things I mentioned don’t really make me too likeable, do they? Behind the book Source: Goodreads.com

Introduction ISIN:  978-8193136065 Genre:  Fiction / Indian Writing Publishers:  Read Out Loud Publishing LLP Price:  Rs. 249/- ( I got this book from the  b00k r3vi3w  for a review ) In an age when families are becoming more nuclear, Karthik's family was an aberration: It was a large joint family with its own complications, contradictions and commonalities. Two love stories and a wedding get intertwined within the family at the same time. One of them could make or break the joint family, will the family survive? Will the love story succeed? Will the younger generation respond to the needs of the family? How will the older generation respond to the changing perceptions of the younger generation? Will the family eco-system survive? In an India swamped by globalization, this racy and humorous story tries to dissect the generational changes in Indian society and how the Indian society is responding to the changes. Amazon.in  | Goodreads ...

Introduction ISIN: 978-93-84052-41-6 Genre: Fiction / Drama Publishers: Bloomsbury Price : Rs. 499/- ( I received the book for review from the publisher ) In a boxy apartment building in an American university town, Romola Mitra, a newly arrived young bride, anxiously awaits her first letter from home in India. When she accidentally opens the wrong letter, it changes her life. Decades later, her son Amit finds that letter and thinks he has discovered his mother's secret. But secrets have their own secrets sometimes, and a way of following their keepers. Amit does not know that Avinash, his dependable and devoted father, lurks on gay Internet groups at times, unable to set aside his lifelong attraction to men. Avinash has no idea that his dutiful wife had once romanced a dashing Bengali filmstar, whose memory she keeps tucked away in a diary amongst her silk saris. Growing up in Calcutta, in a house bustling with feisty grandmothers, Amit has been shielded from his pa...

Introduction ISIN: 978-81-8400-575-2 Genre: Fiction Publishers: Random House India Price: Rs. 399/- ( I received the book for review from the publisher) Two brothers bound by tragedy; a fiercely brilliant woman haunted by her past; a country torn by revolution. A powerful new novel--set in both India and America--that explores the price of idealism and a love that can last long past death. Growing up in Calcutta, born just fifteen months apart, Subhash and Udayan Mitra are inseparable brothers, one often mistaken for the other. But they are also opposites, with gravely different futures ahead of them. It is the 1960s, and Udayan--charismatic and impulsive--finds himself drawn to the Naxalite movement, a rebellion waged to eradicate inequity and poverty: he will give everything, risk all, for what he believes. Subhash, the dutiful son, does not share his brother's political passion; he leaves home to pursue a life of scientific research in a quiet, coastal corne...

Introduction ·          ISBN -9788184000610 ·          Genre: Fiction ·          Publishers: Random House ·          Price: Rs. 299/- ( I got this book from the publisher requesting for a review ) The Immigrant as a book struck me for various reasons. One Manju Kapur happens to be one of my favourite authors since the time I read her book Home. She writes about human relationships very beautifully and that too in the Indian context which makes it very easy to connect. Secondly her stories always have a woman as the central character triggering the feminist in me. And lastly I am too much in love with India as a country and somehow the people who have migrated to various countries have always made me curious. I as a person need a sense of belonging to exist – be it with the person, city, town, ar...

“ Amma….uppu…. .” ( Translation : Ma.. ..salt ) Padma screamed from the dining table. She started taking deep breaths as instructed by her yoga teacher to control her seething anger. Her mother had prepared her favourite upma for breakfast today as asked by her but like every time she had forgotten to put salt in it. “ Forgot … "she sniggered “ How can someone forget some basic things just like that ” Padma recollected her school days when her mother would forget to put sugar in her milk sometimes making her irritated early in the morning. Forgetting salt was perhaps the most common thing that she did regularly otherwise every day there was something new forgotten.

Introduction The relationship  of a child with his/her parents is perhaps the most beautiful one on this earth. It defines that child and makes him what they are when they grow up. Basking in the love of both the parents is a blessing but having to choose from either of them is a very traumatic experience. Custody ( ISBN 9788184001549, Published by Random House India ) by Manju Kapur is about one such experience.