Hate to flip through frivolous glossies when you're feeling miserable or pensive? We spread out a collection of cool new reads for every frame of mind
Hate to flip through frivolous glossies when you're feeling miserable or pensive? We spread out a collection of cool new reads for every frame of mind
Mood: Miserable
Title: Life is Perfect
Author: Himani Dalmia
Publisher: Rupa & Co.
Price: Rs 195This is a coming-of-age novel revolving around a young woman, who appears to have it allu00a0youth, intelligence, money, even beauty. But things aren't as perfect as they seem. Poised on the threshold of adulthood, she tries to find depth and meaning in her world.u00a0u00a0u00a0
Mood: Wrecked
Title: Hopes Alive
Author: Various
Publisher: FXB India Suraksha
Price: Rs 250The compilation narrates the personal stories of women and children, who are fighting the HIV virus and striving to lead a life of dignity and integrity. The NGO release aims at increasing AIDS awareness.
Mood: Curious
Title: Tehelka as Metaphor
Author: Madhu Trehan
Publisher: Roli Books
Price: Rs 595
In March 2001, the website Tehelka broke Operation West End, a big undercover news story in Indian journalism. In a rigorously researched and searing authentic account of the exposu00c3u00a9 and its aftermath, the author does a forensic study of the imperatives at the root of it, the characters and heroes and villians of the story. In the style of Rashomon, the story is related by numerous participants of the same incidents and none of the stories tally.
Mood: Arty
Title: Daughters of India
Author: Stephen Huyler
Publisher: Mapin
Price: Rs 3,000Through 250 illuminating photographs, an American photo-artist profiles 20 women from diverse communities ranging from the rice paddies of far southern India to the plantation of the Himalayas, from the dry western deserts to the verdant east coast, and from tiny villages to enormous cities. They represent the traditional and the contemporary, the repressed and the highly innovative, the outcast and the entrepreneur.
Mood: Motherly/Fatherly
Title: 100 questions from my child
Author: Mallika Chopra
Publisher: Roli Books
Price: Rs 295Spiritual speaker Deepak Chopra's daughter exploresu00a0 questions children asku00a0sometimes whimsical, often mystical. The book says that each question a child asks presents a chance to change the future.
Mood: Introspective
Title: Unsettled
Author: Kamini Karlekar
Publisher: Westland-Tranquebar
Price: Rs 295In 2004, the author went to Sudan as one civil war came to an end and another was about to start, to work in the field of refugee protection. As she turned 30, she faced a personal sense of rootlessness; in Indian terms, she was 'unsettled' in every way that mattered. She travelled between the world of Africans and the worlds of Europeans and Americansu00a0she had a passport to all, but she belonged to none. This moving personal memoir gets a thumbs-up from us.
