The multitude of choices available to us today was set in contrast with memories of yesteryear, at a book-reading session of Santosh Desai’s Mother Pious Lady: Making Sense of Everyday India in Bangalore on Friday.
Theatre personality Arundhati Nag engaged the author in an animated tete-a-tete on his collection of essays, that discusses the Indian middle class emerging from the folds of the past. To name a few: from just a Chitrahaar in the 80s to children having a choice of at least 80 channels on TV; ‘The Dignity of Ultramarine’ that never made clothes white but still showed people then cared to try, ‘The Dhaniya factor’, the ‘dying window’ still fresh with memories of watching those passing by, and the heroism of self-restraint those days, when mothers said leftovers were tasty and fathers opted out of scooters, saying they loved to walk to work.
Full report here Times of India
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