Lantern on their Horns makes its debut at Reliance TimeOut
Author Radhika Jha engages the audience in a book reading and discussion session.
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Radhika Jha at the launch of 'Lanterns on their Horns' at Reliance TimeOut Gurgaon
-- Reliance TimeOut, the books, magazine and music specialty format of Reliance Retail in association with Harper Collins was delighted to have the best selling author, Radhika Jha at the Gurgaon store, where she launched her novel, 'Lanterns on their Horns'.
The wide cast of characters in this unusual novel combines with playful irony and humor to lay bare an India that struggles daily and in innumerable ways with the overreaching issue of modernization - the ethics of it, and its impact on traditional social structures.
The launch was followed by reading and discussion of the novel by the best selling author herself where she interacted with the audience and shared few interesting essentials from her new novel. The audience enthusiastically responded with questions and a few also shared their own views.
On the occasion of the launch, Deepinder Kapany, Business Head, Reliance TimeOut, said, "We are thrilled to have one of the best selling authors, Radhika Jha in our store to launch her new novel, 'Lanterns on their Horns'. It is the aim of the Reliance TimeOut to constantly have exciting and engaging book readings, launches and events at the store and this is another event in that direction. I am sure readers will love her book and relate to it."
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About the Novel
Change does not come easily to the central Indian village of Nandgaon. The headman, Gopal Mundkur, fears it: he suspects that modern science will only cause the destruction of the fragile harmony that binds Nandgaon and its people together. But when Ramu, the village simpleton, marries Laxmi, the college educated daughter of a poor farmer, their union gives birth to a miracle that will change Nandgaon forever, and there is little Mundkur can do about it.
The unlikely catalyst for this transformation is Manoj Mishra, a failed PhD in history, who believes he has found the solution to rural India's poverty. And he will let nothing and no one get in the way of his mission - not his wife, nor the intricate mechanism of village and district administration. Gradually, these four very different people become embroiled in an epic confrontation in which their ideals and their very lives are at stake.
The wide cast of characters in this unusual novel combines with playful irony and humour to lay bare an India that struggles daily and in innumerable ways with the overarching issue of modernization - the ethics of it, and its impact on traditional social structures.
About the Author
Radhika Jha studied anthropology at Amherst College and has a master's in political science from the University of Chicago. She has worked for the Hindustan Times and Business World and has also worked for the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, where she started up the Interact project for the education of children of victims of terrorism in different parts of India. Her debut novel Smell won the French Prix Guerlain and has been translated into sixteen languages. This was followed by a collection of short stories, The Elephant and the Maruti.
