Books
Books
While I was steadily editing books on a range of subjects, I had begun to write my first novel, and was fortunate enough for it to be picked up by Penguin India. Several books of fiction and non-fiction followed over the next few years (a total of 9 books so far). And I am currently working on my 4th novel, titled Hiding In Plain Sight. I am currently uploading a chapter a week, as I write, on my Facebook page – a way of staying connected to a readership right from the beginning of the creative process.
3, Zakia Mansion
It is the story of an urban Indian family in the Mumbai of the decades following the seventies. The story centres on Shaheen, a daughter who witnesses the slow fraying of the family fabric. Changing times, outmoded attitudes, a life-changing event within the family – all these come together in a cauldron from which Shaheen must leap out. The story spans about 25 years over which the family disintegrates in ways that only two people, Shaheen and Ehsaan, really understand. And with understanding comes the burden of memory and of acceptance.
It’s a tale simply told, tracing the fates of a family with its universally recognizable share of neurotic relatives, bizarre attitudes, humour and hilarity in the most unlikely of places, tragic happenings, irreparable damage, and salvation for some. The writer leads you with ease through a span of three decades and the timeless theme of drifting, dropping anchor at the wrong places and ultimately learning to journey on without maps.
3, Zakia Mansion
It is the story of an urban Indian family in the Mumbai of the decades following the seventies. The story centres on Shaheen, a daughter who witnesses the slow fraying of the family fabric. Changing times, outmoded attitudes, a life-changing event within the family – all these come together in a cauldron from which Shaheen must leap out. The story spans about 25 years over which the family disintegrates in ways that only two people, Shaheen and Ehsaan, really understand. And with understanding comes the burden of memory and of acceptance.
It’s a tale simply told, tracing the fates of a family with its universally recognizable share of neurotic relatives, bizarre attitudes, humour and hilarity in the most unlikely of places, tragic happenings, irreparable damage, and salvation for some. The writer leads you with ease through a span of three decades and the timeless theme of drifting, dropping anchor at the wrong places and ultimately learning to journey on without maps.