We were an ordinary family, with conventional lives. We were mostly happy, but alwayscautious of too much happiness. We were hardly religious, just pious enough to keepus on the straight and narrow. We bickered a little but would never have thought tobe estranged. We feared illness and anticipated eventual death, but we expected lifeto follow a certain path, a particular schedule. Until...'It is 1991. As Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated and a new government comes to power, setting in motiona process of economic reforms that will transform India, an ordinary family is about to experiencedetours from the traditional middle-class script of their lives. Over the next quarter century, asthe world around them changes in ways unexpected, their lives too wind along uncharted trails,sometimes sunlit, sometimes shadowy and forbidding.
About the Author
Aruna Nambiar is a Bengaluru-based writer and editor who grew up in Mumbai, where she studied engineering and management. She started her career with an international bank before pursuing her passion for writing. Her previous books include, Mango Cheeks, Metal Teeth, a humorous coming-of-age story and social satire set in 1980s Kerala. She has also written for the coffee table book, Portrait Kerala, and contributed short fiction and non-fiction pieces to several anthologies, newspapers and magazines.
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