WHIMSICAL IN ITS TELLING AND BRUTAL IN ITS PROBING OF THE HUMAN MIND, NISHA SUSANS STORIES BREATHE UNEXPECTED LIFE INTO THE DARK AND JOYFUL CORNERS OF A COUNTRY LEARNING TO RELISH AND RESIST GLOBALISATION.A classical musician finds a prince in a chat room.
WHIMSICAL IN ITS TELLING AND BRUTAL IN ITS PROBING OF THE HUMAN MIND, NISHA SUSANS STORIES BREATHE UNEXPECTED LIFE INTO THE DARK AND JOYFUL CORNERS OF A COUNTRY LEARNING TO RELISH AND RESIST GLOBALISATION.
A classical musician finds a prince in a chat room. Three dancers in Kochi mastermind their sex lives over email. A young wife in Mumbai becomes obsessed with a dead womans online relics. Strange (and familiar) troll wars drag at a writers peace of mind. Her daughters cellphone conversations deeply worry a cook in Delhi. A young mother finds a job monitoring disturbing content for a social media company.The stories in this dazzling debut collection tap into the rich vein of love, violence and intimacy that technology, particularly the internet has brought to the lives of Indians over the last two decades. Two decades that transformed Indias digital landscape, where would-be lovers went from cooing into cordless phones to swiping right on cellphones.
About the Author
Nisha Susan is a writer and editor. She grew up in India, Nigeria and Oman and lives in Bangalore. She is the co-founder of two award-winning media companies, The Ladies Finger and Grist Media. She currently writes Cheap Thrills, a column on millennials, time and obsessions forMint Lounge. She was formerly Features Editor,Tehelkamagazine and also commissioning editor for Yahoo! Originals, a longform destination for Yahoo! India. Her non-fiction is focused on culture, gender and politics. Her fiction has been published byn+1, Caravan, Penguin, Zubaan and others, and often explores the intimacy and strangeness that the internet has brought to India.
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