Reading this book makes you grateful for living in a country where we are free to chose our partners and to divorce when there is no more hope. I liked the book and the way it was written but thought the character of Raman was weak and unable to stand up to his second wife. I was dabbling between...
http://sandyi.blogspot.com/2009/06/bo...I've always felt the best time to read is when one is on vacation, preferably while traveling. And a long train journey is particularly conducive and appealing in this regard. Also, a great deal gets read, unlike other times when there are too many distract...
Manju Kapur’s debut novel, Difficult Daughters, is the powerful story of a young woman’s search for independence in a time when the path of a woman’s future was anyone’s decision but her own. Virmati is a young Punjabi girl, born to a high-minded family in Amritsar; the oldest daughter of an ever...
I remember a few bloggers reviewing Manju Kapur's books positively and had wanted to pick something up by her for the longest time. My library had a couple of books by her and for some strange reason I was attracted to this book.Guess it had something to do with the fact that I was intrigued by t...
The three hour gap between The History of the Book and Introduction to Systems Analysis did nicely. By now Nina had grown to love the room in which Anton lived. The walls were painted black, so was the furniture. In the middle hung a light enclosed by a red paper Chinese lampshade with hanging go...
‘I never had it, did I?’ ‘Don’t think so,’ said Mrs Rajora cautiously. ‘TB is hardly a disease that goes unnoticed.’ ‘Beta, as a child you were ill for a long time. But then you grew out of it.’ ‘Maybe I am damaged goods after all.’ ‘Don’t be silly, and if you had TB, so w...
One slip might find her alone, vulnerable and unprotected. The infinite ways in which she could be harmed were not specified, but Astha absorbed them through her skin, and ever after was drawn to the safe and secure. She was her parents’ only child. Her education, her char...