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Mother Pious Lady: Harper Collins India, 380 pages, Rs399

Mother Pious Lady

Making sense of Everyday India

by Santosh Desai

A new India is visibly emerging from within the folds of its many pasts. This new India needs to be seen with new eyes, free from the baggage of yesterdays characterizations. This is exactly what Santosh Desai, one of India’s best-known social commentators, does in this warm, affectionate and deliciously witty look at the changing urban Indian middle class.

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“This is a rare and captivating book, wise and witty, on the inner lives of middle class Indians. Desai both enlightens and entertains.”

Sudhir Kakar

  • Book Reviews

    • The Hindu : Literary Review

      We are like this only ANVAR ALIKHAN A collection of delightful essays on India, and Indian-ness. Mother Pious Lady, Santosh… Read more…

    • Ahmedabad Mirror Review

      Indefinable middle class Market researchers attempt to ‘crack’ this inscrutable constituency of an India whose consumption potential can redefine the… Read more…

    • Deccan Herald Review

      Many days in the life of middle-class India MEERA RAJENDRAN Mother Pious Lady: making sense of everyday india Santosh Desai.… Read more…

    • Amazon US Review

      A cheat-sheet for dealing with Gen-X Indians (several variants of the truth exist), June 28, 2010 By S.Yogendra  This is… Read more…

    • Mail Today Review

      Beyond the Age of Paisa Vasool By Shiv Visvanathan Desai traces India’s move from asocialist republic of scarcity to astate… Read more…

    • And Then There Was Ma

      A 30-year survey of the urban Indian charts our ‘progress’ from the days of Chitrahaar to the present Raja Menon… Read more…

    • The Asian Age Review

      Pleasures of boredom  One of my favourite social commentators is Santosh Desai. He recently published a wonderful book called Mother… Read more…

    • Deccan Chronicle Review

      Santosh Desai is a social commentator and writer of the newspaper column. He heads Future Brands and was formerly president… Read more…

    • Open Magazine Review

      Typically Middle Class Santosh Desai is a top-of-the-class ad guy, no doubt about that. And he lives up to the… Read more…

    • Mint Lounge Review

      We are still like this only The collection of bite-sized commentaries covers well-worn ground, but does so  with  joy and… Read more…

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