"Broken Melodies" launch of the bittersweet novel about growing up by Gajra Kottary, at Habitat World, IHC, Lodhi Road > 6:30pm on 4th May 2011
Time : 6:30 pm
Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Event Details : The India Today Group and HarperCollins Publishers India is hosting the launch of Broken Melodies, A bittersweet novel about growing up by Gajra Kottary, an award winning story and screenplay writer. The book will be released by the Guest of Honour, Mr Anupam Kher. The launch will also be preceded by screening of an AV featuring Anupam Kher, Dimple Kapadia, Kunal Kapoor, Mahie Gill and Avika Gor reading excerpts from the book.
About Broken Melodies: Broken Melodies is a bitter-sweet story of a girl, Niyati, growing up in Delhi and is set in the 1970s and 80’s. Niyati is a normal child growing up in an abnormal family. Her father Paaji, a talented but unbending classical musician, is gradually drifting apart from his wife Sumiran, who works as a bureaucrat to afford a public school education for her daughters. Paaji believes that as an artiste, he is perched on a higher intellectual scale and he blames Sumiran for his failure to realise his potential. Sumiran prefers to risk Paaji’s ire and estrangement but refuses to prostrate herself on the altar of his hauteur. Broken Melodies is a cauldron that keeps bubbling throughout as it tracks Niyati’s coming of age, and finding both romance and love in a family being torn asunder under its own contradictions.
About the Author: Gajra Kottary, a gold medallist from the Indian Institute of Mass Communications, New Delhi, started her career as a journalist at theStatesman in Delhi and switched to writing for television and short stories in the mid-1990s. She has written the story/screenplay for award-winning and critically acclaimed serials like Astitva – Ek Prem Kahani and Balika Vadhu, which is currently ranking among India’s most popular daily soaps. She has earlier published two short story collections, Fragile Victories (1996) and The Last Laugh (2003). Broken Melodies is her first novel and is being simultaneously issued in Hindi as Bikhre Sur. This simultaneous bilingual release is a first for HarperCollins India.
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Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Place : Amaltas, Habitat World, India Habitat Centre ( IHC ), Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003
Parking : Gate No. 1 to 3 ( Cars ), Gate No. 2 ( Bikes & Bicycles )
Area : Lodhi Road Area Events
Set Attending / Not Attending status below :About Broken Melodies: Broken Melodies is a bitter-sweet story of a girl, Niyati, growing up in Delhi and is set in the 1970s and 80’s. Niyati is a normal child growing up in an abnormal family. Her father Paaji, a talented but unbending classical musician, is gradually drifting apart from his wife Sumiran, who works as a bureaucrat to afford a public school education for her daughters. Paaji believes that as an artiste, he is perched on a higher intellectual scale and he blames Sumiran for his failure to realise his potential. Sumiran prefers to risk Paaji’s ire and estrangement but refuses to prostrate herself on the altar of his hauteur. Broken Melodies is a cauldron that keeps bubbling throughout as it tracks Niyati’s coming of age, and finding both romance and love in a family being torn asunder under its own contradictions.
About the Author: Gajra Kottary, a gold medallist from the Indian Institute of Mass Communications, New Delhi, started her career as a journalist at theStatesman in Delhi and switched to writing for television and short stories in the mid-1990s. She has written the story/screenplay for award-winning and critically acclaimed serials like Astitva – Ek Prem Kahani and Balika Vadhu, which is currently ranking among India’s most popular daily soaps. She has earlier published two short story collections, Fragile Victories (1996) and The Last Laugh (2003). Broken Melodies is her first novel and is being simultaneously issued in Hindi as Bikhre Sur. This simultaneous bilingual release is a first for HarperCollins India.
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"Broken Melodies" launch of the bittersweet novel about growing up by Gajra Kottary, at Habitat World, IHC, Lodhi Road > 6:30pm on 4th May 2011
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