Books to look out for this week

Slices of Life

Richa Gupta

Bluerose Publishers, Rs 298

The book is a collection of short stories or vignettes that provide an immersive and entertaining experience of diverse scenarios of life in motion. They are slivers of existence with the ingredients of plot and characters, sprinkled with human emotion, pervaded by the aroma of human dilemmas and served in the platter of lucid language. Sometimes searing with agony and often pervaded with beauty and yearning in the midst of travails in a contemporary or futuristic reality, they explore relationships and the human struggle to find meaning amidst chaos.

Quintessentially Tata

Syamal Gupta

Rupa, Rs 295

This book is a must-read for all those simply curious or actively interested to know about the Tata visionaries and the working of Bombay House, the head office of the Tata group in Mumbai, that touches lives the world over. The author’s experiences over 55 years in one of the biggest business houses in India reflects the Tata’s pioneering spirit of entrepreneurship and its culture of nation-building, led by Tata founder Jamsetji Tata, and stalwarts like J.R.D. Tata, Sumant Moolgaokar, Naval Tata, Nani Palkhivala and Ratan Tata.

Partap Singh Kairon: A Visionary

Gurinder Kairon, M. Rajivlochan

and Meeta Rajivlochan

Rupa, Rs 595

Punjab not only bore the brunt of Partition, but the state’s economy was also left in ruins. This was the time when one man helped the state emerge from the ravages of death and destruction — Sardar Partap Singh Kairon. He steered Punjab away from the confused times after Partition and reined in divisive forces that threatened to divide the state yet again. He succeeded in getting different communities to work together and brought stability to the region. Read the book to know more about him.

Goner

Tazmeen Amna

Penguin, Rs 299

She’s a young woman going through a mid-20s crisis, trying to deal with the dark and intoxicating side of life with haunting memories of an abusive exboyfriend, remnants of a broken family and obvious mental health issues. She finds herself on a consistent downward spiral. With no job, a failing art career, months of expensive therapy, a cast on her leg and a mystery man in her life, will she be able to recover from her embarrassing wastefulness? Can she defeat her infamous trait of self-sabotage and manoeuvre her way through some hard-hitting truths?