New collections of books 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

New collections of books 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 195

Mood: Wrecked
Title: Hopes Alive

Author: Various
Publisher: FXB India Suraksha
Price: Rs 250

The 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 3,000

Through 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 295

Spiritual 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 295

In 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.

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