Author: Kanika Gahlaut
Publisher: Penguin
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 236
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0143028235
Description
Among the Chatterati marks the arrival of a spunky, intelligent and tremendously entertaining voice in Indian fiction.
Aby was a normal girl. And then an accident - a fatal one - made a society columnist out of her.
But it takes a special kind of person to track the lives of the beautiful, the famous and the merely rich. They are the partying set - extravagant, bitchy, amoral, and always in your face. You mess with them at your own peril.
Dazzled and disoriented, Aby follows overrated designers, narcissistic models, second-rung politicians and jealous fellow hacks through five-star Delhi. Somewhere along the line, she becomes a stranger to herself - till heartbreak sets her right again. Almost
Contents
Death of a Singer,
Birth of a Society Columnist
The Mad, Mad World of
Hi, Hi, Hi, Journalism
The Society Columnist As
Political Correspondent
I Exist
Thunderbolt and Lightning
Love in the Time of Gossip - I
So Miss Society Columnist, Just
How Close Are You to Society?
Love in the Time of Gossip - II
And Stories Never End . .