Showing posts with label Ritu Lalit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ritu Lalit. Show all posts

Monday, February 9, 2015

Book Review :Wrong for the Right reasons .

Shyamoli Verma is back home as she has filed for divorce.She is unwelcome & so are her kids,Samar & Ketaki.Shyamoli's mom hates her for letting them down for walking out of her matrimonial home.Shyamoli's dad cannot express his love & admiration for her daughter under the watchful eyes of his wife .Though Shyamoli stays in another house owned by her parents,her mom's interference is phenomenal.

Amongst all this ,Shyamoli finds time to bake cakes,breads & cokies.Slowly she starts getting orders.Her creams & lotions which she made for her Ketaki's ultra sensitive skin has many takers as well.Her classmate Uma & his boyfriend take upon themselves to get orders for her creams .

Shyamoli expands her baking business without any help from the start up man Subodh Mishra.He regrets his decision & becomes her friend for life.Meantime ,her dad dies of stroke.Her brother comes to pay last respects.And her mom almost throws her out.Will Shyamoli have to leave everything she built up so painstakingly because she has no one who cares ? What about Samar & Ketaki ? Does her divorce with her hubby Manav come through finally ? Is Uma really her friend ?And Subodh Mishra is more than just  a good friend ?

The book has its dose of humour.Shyamoli muses ,"Giving up cigarettes is overrated,One dies anyway ."Perhaps,one of the best smoking gig .  Shyamoli's brother gifting her because she looked after their  parents & let him free. Shyamoli's mother treats her daughter as if she is her bahu is a throwback on the saas bahu saga.

The baking description & the baked goodies named in the book is too much to resist.Shyamoli is a woman who despite her problems never lets others down.A woman empowering read .So many of us will find our thoughts echoed in this book.



Wrong 
For The Right Reasons
by 
Ritu Lalit


The Blurb

Shyamoli Verma’s timing is wrong. In her late twenties, she finds that her marriage is irrevocably broken. She comes back to her parents with her pre-teen son and an infant daughter, only to find that she is unwelcome. 
Independent and brash, she decides to bring up her children and also get a divorce without any support from friends and family. 
Written with wry self deprecating humour, this is the story of a divorced woman's quest for love and security.

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Meet the Author






Ritu Lalit is a corporate slave turned fiction writer. A voracious reader, she is a gold medalist post graduate in English Literature who spent most of her childhood in remote areas in the northeastern parts of India, lying on grassy hillsides daydreaming and reading books.

She loves spinning tales, but no longer has her captive audience as her children grew up and flew away from the coop. Her three dogs don’t pay much attention. She began writing in the vain hope that the characters she creates will listen to her, even do her bidding.

She has five books out in the market, A Bowlful of Butterflies, HILAWI, Chakra, Chronicles of the Witch Way and Wrong, for the Right Reasons. Her fifth novel, His Father’s Mistress is coming soon.



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Monday, October 14, 2013

Book Review : Chakra

'Chakra : Chronicles of the Witch way' by Ritu Lalit is the third book by the author.She has penned two books earlier ....namely 'A bowlful of Butterflies' & 'Hilawi'.The 'Chakra' cover shows two grey eyes of a woman through a slit in some ancient manuscript.The manuscript is shaded in hues of blue,navy blue & green .The manuscript has some Hindu symbols  Om,Trikon & others imprinted on it.The grey eyes are hypnotic...they seem to piercing through as if searching for something .The paper quality is good.The printing is very good .The book is neatly arranged into chapters.There is a prayer to Ma Kundalini, at the beginning ,before the story unfolds.It sets the stage for the saga which is based on yogic power of those who practice & swear by it .


This is the story of Parineeta, who runs a detective agency in Delhi & is caretaker to her nieces & nephew .She also takes care of Mickey ,an orphan. Parineeta searches for baubles of the rich  ladies & also goes after the flirtatious husbands.One day ,just as vacations are about to begin in school,her brother's daughter gets into some act ,which makes heads turn.All hell breaks loose after that .There are  many twists & turns in the book from then onwards, till the very end.Parineeta is frantic as she finds her nephew & niece missing.Will she be able to locate them ? Have the kids gone on a frolic of their own ? Or have they been kidnapped ? As Parineeta begins her search,she has to come to terms with her forgotten legacy.She does not want to have anything to do with it.She has lost so much because of that ,she opines.Yet,it seems, only her past can make the future better for generation next.There is a prophecy which talks of the age of the Japnis. Is Parineeta going to usher in that age ? Will her nieces be also part & parcel of that age of the witches ? And if so ,how ? How far is that day ? For all the answers,Parineeta must connect with her clan & even with rival clans & many others.There is hardly any time left before rivals close in on her nieces & nephew. Parineeta has to act fast.She has to trust those with whom she never wanted to associate.Will others heed her now, when she needs them most ?


Chakra is the story of Japas & Japnis who have a very strong Kundalini which is awake from birth.This is the saga of the clans of Bhoomars,Jalajs,Pallavs,Varunis & others like Koylas.Koylas are those who drain others emotionally.The author talks of people who venerate the elements....air,earth,fire ,water etal. She writes about the serpent ...our inherent Kundalini power which must be awakened to make us what we actually are.Ritu lalit has made the saga so interesting by taking bits & pieces from Indian myths,puranas that Chakra makes for a truly fascinating kahani !

Chakra has its bits of humor .Witness the tee shirts worn by the heroine which say it all ' HIGH MAINTENANCE BUT SO WORTH IT ','HOT n SPICY ','TALK TO MY FACE,TITS CAN'T HEAR 'etc.References to the traffic in Delhi says   that people take pot shots on traffic lights with their guns ! The tale is feminist, in its approach.Witches are going to claim the age.Witches are better at power play.The book also states that many girls are disappearing.....as female infanticide & other crimes are making survival of women difficult.

In a nutshell,this is a very readable story, set in the present age with connections to our heritage of mudras,yoga,kundalini & the power each one of us have .That innate power, which is dormant & sleeping, needs to be awakened to claim our future, from corrupt netas & an ; inefficient bureaucracy.An inspiring read  indeed
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