Voices in the valley
Author: Suravi Sharma Kumar
Plublisher: Rupa, Rs 195
Against the backdrop of a politically-turbulent Assam, a young girl named Millie is determined to make her voice heard. She spends her childhood in a rural set-up with seven sisters and three anxious matriarchs. She struggles with orthodoxy and convention, and goes on to become a student leader, something which only foreshadows the bigger role she is destined to play.
The Trouble Shooter
Author: Sanjay Shankar
Plublisher: Jufic Books, Rs 195
An exciting romance set in the hi-finance world where ambitions and power games do not give ethics a chance. The interests of the clients are trampled upon, legally, in pursuit of individual goals. The story starts 15 years back in a Bangalore B-School campus, when Avni meets Sid. Sparks fly and friendship blooms. Fifteen years later, Avantika is a hi-profile journalist in Dubai, and then story takes a sharp turn.