Sharte lagu

There are books that feel like a book while reading and then there is ‘Sharten Laagoo’. The simple and lively stories compel you to take a look back at your own life and remember when you put these incidences at the back of your mind. It’s not just a collection of stories and a true incident, but also a reflection of what every one of us has seen sometime or the other, in our lives. The characters come alive, time and again as people we may have met, or as a persona of our own self.

Whether it is highs and lows of a relationship, chaos and bedlam of school life, petty or harmless office gossips, or the buzz of a salon; all stories are strongly steeped in reality and yet they take a superb flight of fancy in the hands of a master craftsman. Rich in imagination, broad in its scope and elegant in its style, ‘Sharten Laagoo’ is arguably one of the best debut works in recent Hindi literature.