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Twenty-six-year-old advertising professional Amala walks the tightrope between her big-city dreams and small-town roots. Having just broken up with her possessive live-in Mumbaikar boyfriend, Amala returns to Jalandhar in time for her grandfather’s funeral. Back home, she is barely on talking terms with her mother, Disha, who divorced her father and entered into a relationship with another man. But the funeral does let Amala spend time with her grandmother. ...
Niyati's world is clouded by parental conflict, the hypocrisies of a philandering musician father, the impassioned strains of his ragas and the seething silences of her mother. Her only solace, Niyati's touchstone for everything in life, is elder sister Nisha. Nisha remains the only constant in Niyati's life until a revelation sends her beliefs into a spin… Broken Melodies is as much about a troubled child in a broken household as it is about ...
Written in a lucid style, the remarkable quality of the collection are the plots. The Last Laugh is Kottary's second collection of short stories where women take center-stage. It is inspired by the 'twist-in-the-tail' style of Roald Dahl, though the tales are not as macabre.They are a delightful mix. A new bride's fantasy, the existential frustrations of a crusader's wife, the dilemma of a chic MBA in publicly recognizing her homespun parents, an aware-winning ...