What the story is about: Eight-year-old Chanda Maheshwari and thirteen-year-old Veerendra Singh Choudhry are married as per custom. But when the bridegroom runs away immediately after the wedding, the Maheshwari family’s world comes crashing down. They move to Jaipur to begin a new life in the city. Fourteen years later, as a management student in […]
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Book Review: His Drunken Wife by Sundari Venkatraman
A bride who drinks herself into a stupor at her wedding reception when the bridegroom is everything she has wanted in a husband, rich, rich and rich. It makes for an interesting story. As the Maggi ketchup ad says, “It’s different!” ‘His Drunken Wife’ is the second novella in the ‘Marriages Made in India’ […]