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Marrying Anita - Anita Jain
haroon marikar@haroonhmarikar
Sep 12, 2008 10:36 PM, 2165 Views
Single and looking in the new india

This book by Anita jain is for a wide audience though the heading looks innocuous . "marrying anita " if you get turned on by  personal accounts of peoples lives be it a travelogue or autobiography then this book is for you.


It is a strikingly honest (too honest ) account of her single life in New York as well as delhi  told in first person .If you like reading  fiction and get turned on by excellent narrational skills and dreamy life with all its excitement then this book is for you . But the twist is it is all real  . ----the book is non-fiction  .  The author is Harvard educated and a journalist and her narrational skills are exceptional  .


This book is a great read in knowing the changing cultural mores of india the westernisation of indian youth  experienced first hand by a non resident indian returning to india. Her comparison of dating scene in new york and delhi with its similarities and dissimilarities is a good read .


Plot  :  Anita jain is a journalist educated in harvard who is 30 plus .  Though not at all lacking in anything including dating skills she is not married yet . She tried her best in New York -- got great dates  but not a husband  . the great detail in which she described her dates shows the literary skills and shows a lot of her personality and the personalities of new age men  .


At last she came back to new Delhi not in  search of  a job but for a husband --- to lookia  among the eligible bachelors india has to offer who are broad minded educated ......Its her adventure which is in the book


Contraindications : Who should not read this book

  1. the happily married settled  people

2 the old aunties and uncles who will never change

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