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COURTESAN OF STORMS
by N.V. Subramaniam
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Price: Rs. 250
"Courtesan of Storms" is available at the following bookshops:
Delhi:
Bahrisons (South Extension), Teksons (South Extension), Variety Bookstores (Connaught Place).
Mumbai:
Landmark, Odyssey and Crossword Bookstores
Chennai:
Landmark, Odyssey bookstores
Kolkatta:
Crossword Bookstores
Bangalore:
Sapna Book House, Gangaram
Hyderabad:
Akshara
Chandigarh:
Modern Bookstore, Capital Book Depot
"Courtesan of Storms" can also be bought directly from the the publisher.
Featured before in 'Book Marks' veteran Journalist N.V. Subramaniam's first Novel - University of Love. we feature his much awaited second novel, Courtesan of Storms.
In this, his second novel, N.V.Subramanian explores the odds stacked against love, and the irremediable vanities that keep human relationships at surface. Set in Delhi, Courtesan of Storms runs through the lives of Leela, a psychiatrist, Sat, a declinist, Calcutta writer Sid Ray, Sharmista with a news TV career, Ranjit, a schizoid dealer of spirits, and Ragini, a designer with the smarts. There is also the Star, representative of a generation, who forsakes his identity and his brilliant soirees for the comforts of political correctness and State patronage.
This is a story of our time.
A prisoner in the mind of her time in frozen Vermont as an isolated, forlorn newly-wed, Leela sees the hot, over-populated copulating frenzy of India as escape. Surrendering her Green Card, she yields to a succession of lovers, becomes their slave, assumes their multiple personalities, and scatters away. When Leela finds Sat and love, her search for self becomes as obsessive, searing and fruitless as her attempts at guilty reconciliations with her husband and child. Breaking away from love, Leela tries to return to the road of slavery, but is unable to cope…
N.V.Subramanian lives and works in Delhi as a strategic writer. His analyses have been published in Le Monde Diplomatique, Defence News, South China Morning Post, Gulf News,Opinion Asia, and Asian Affairs.
The Novelist is also the Editor of the E-Zine http://www.newsinsight.net/
About the author:
N.V.Subramanian was born in New Delhi in 1958 into a Thanjavur Tamil Brahmin family. Martial and artistic traits have simultaneously run for two generations in the family. Subramanian's grand uncle fought in the early Twentieth Century wars in China, while his grandfather, largely a self-taught man, drew him to literature. From his father, he inherited a disposition to sketch and write, and when his family prevented him from joining the army, he drifted into journalism.
Subramanian rose swiftly in the profession, becoming assistant editor with Sunday Mail and India Week, and quit the print media as chief of bureau, deputy editor and roving editor for Sunday
magazine. Now he edits a strategic affairs website.
Subramanian's rovings took him all over North India. But his sensibilities about the politics of the
Centre and the Peripheries were sharpened by his Kashmir, Punjab and North East assignments at the height of insurgent violence and by his reporting of sectarian and caste conflicts. It gave him a measure of understanding of the power of the Indian State, which proved valuable in the writing of his first novel, University of Love, a study of one-hundred-and-fifty years of violence, which was published by Writers Workshop, Calcutta.
Author's address
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5 H Vandhna Building,
11 Tolstoy Marg, New Delhi - 110 001.
Phones: 91-11-23320388
91- 9958439309
Email: subramanian.n.v.1958@gmail.com
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