Author: Neeru Nanda
Publisher: Rupa
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 201
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8129108445
Description
Ramsingh sells his land for a sum beyond his comprehension. Ignorant as he is, he collides with his benefactress over a lowly job for his son. The Peak.
An innocent fight between two children escalates into an ugly adult argument at a funeral. His Father’s Funeral.
Suman, a destitute widow with three children, cheated into a second marriage, tears up her marriage certificate in a great show of courage and pride. Room No 38.
A surrogate family rebuilds life around an old woman much to the chagrin of her real family. Lonely, Not Dead.
A well-to-do farmer’s wife loses everything, including her husband, in a flood. Unable to come to terms with her circumstances, she runs away to Bombay where she finds her innocence twisted and pawned at the hands of a street villain named Hero. Until her thirteen-year-old daughter takes destiny in her own hands. Sanskriti.
Strong medicine-and we need it sometimes. A thoughtful, disturbing picture of contemporary life in urban India. As a writer, Ms Nanda will definitely go places.
-Ruskin Bond
Contents
FOREWORD
The Peak
His Father’s Funeral
Room No 38
The Sarvaguru
Memories. And Other Possessions
The Silent River
The Surrogate Father
Lonely, Not Dead
The Ghost Writer
Mentoring Sunita
Sanskriti