Title : The Widows of Malabar Hill Author : Sujata Massey Genre : Mystery Publisher : Soho Crime Pages : 432 Rating : 4/5 Young Perveen Mistry has just joined her father’s law firm. Although she has her law degree Perveen cannot practice in the courtroom because of the current laws preventing women from being […]
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Poetry for Saturdays
My husband sent me one of these poems via WhatsApp, and I went and looked for more. Pooja Sachdeva is quite the poetess! #1. Kis baat ki jaldi hai? #2. Haan mein characterless hon
Read the rest of this entry »Best Audiobooks of 2014
As I said earlier, this was the year of the audiobook for me. I got started in 2013, and really got going in 2014. I have to thank the local library for all this, because that’s where I get all my audiobooks for now. It is extremely convenient, and great for when you want to […]
Read the rest of this entry »Miss America Nina Davuluri at Macy’s
Ms. America, Nina Davaluri, the first Ms. America of Indian descent, was in Houston recently and made an appearance at Macys. The desi hordes turned up of course, moi included :-). Well, she really is very pretty, poised and well-spoken as she looks on television, and appears to have a good, strong head […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Author Event : 5 great authors and their books!
[amazon_link id=”1451695659″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]I had the pleasure of attending a Book Event on June 30th, a Sunday afternoon where we got to hear from four different female authors. There was Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni with her recent book “The Oleander Girl”, Saborna Roychowdhury with her book “The Distance” which is soon to have it’s […]
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