Kitty Party Sanyasins
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'We'll meet on the last Saturday of every month, whenever our schedules permit. Just the five of us. Brunch. Either at our houses or breakfast joints or our clubs. Catch up on our lives. Meditate together a bit. Tell each other feel-good stories. How does that sound?'
Sounds perfect--but the outcome can be unforeseen. A much-honoured dancing diva meditates herself into a passionate love affair with the thirty-year-old son of her best friend. The mighty Garuda has to fly down from the legends to impart sense to some troubled teens. A Zen disciple runs frenziedly through the forest with a woman inside his head while a son listens in shock as his mother reveals babyhood trauma of molestation, and sage Durbasha steps out of the Mahabharat to give Ginny, the Crystal Nova ashramite from Los Angeles, a curse within a blessing. Through this crowd wanders Alison Jordan, the Indophile with golden hair and green eyes. She is an excellent raconteur, has a penchant for quality tea and is on a Himalayan quest for salvation and a path to reach out to a frozen Ice King, who has collected thousands of keys but has lost all the locks.
Join the Kitty Party Sanyasins on their quest for a happier life. A charming first novel that will make you both laugh and cry as it uses ancient stories to tell new ones.
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About the author
Ananya Banerjee hails from the verdant hills of Darjeeling. She belongs to a family that has been tea planters for four generations and claims to have quality tea in her veins. She is an alumnus of the University of Cambridge, the University of Calcutta, the University of Texas at Austin, and the Film and Television Institute of India at Pune, India.She has been a media professional for more than three decades and has been associated with Doordarshan, India's national broadcaster, as producer, director, controller of programmes and channel manager (Kashmir). She has directed biopics on astronaut Kalpana Chawla and physicist C.V. Raman, and the centenary film on industrialist J.R.D. Tata. Her documentary Voyage to Freedom on eight differentlyabled people, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Charter of Human Rights, won three international awards. She has been a jury member of Prix Jeunesse, Munich; Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union Symposium, Kuala Lumpur; and the UK-based Whitley Awards, also called the 'Green Oscars', given to conservationists from around the world. She has been a panelist in several international forums on debates concerning the visual media. She is currently working on a biopic on film legend Mrinal Sen and is a Media Consultant, heading the social media team at Doordarshan.A voracious reader, Ananya loves delving into scriptures and legends, the poetry and music of Rabindranath Tagore and Kazi Nazrul Islam, and the robust optimism of Robert Browning's verse. Her favourite reads include the writings of Bibhuti Bhushan Banerjee, Shirshendu Mukherjee, Banaphul, Munshi Prem Chand, P.D. James, Paulo Coelho, Richard Bach, Antoine De Saint-Exupery and Roald Dahl.She is a Commonwealth Bursary Fellow. Satyajit Ray and Mrinal Sen were her referees for a Fulbright Scholarship.
