Shinie Antony quit her job as a journalist with The Economic Times,
The Financial Express and Bridge News to
focus on her passion for writing. In June 2002, her
first book 'Barefoot and Pregnant,' was published by
Rupa and Company. She won a Highly Commended Award in the 2001
Commonwealth Short Story Competition for her story
'Somewhere in Gujarat.', and was awarded the 2002 prize for 'A dog's death'.
She lives in New Delhi.
There is Punjab and there is Kerala, brought startlingly alive, and when Kedar weds Mangala, little does he bargain for whole cities and families to disdain each other. Pressured and soon celibate by compulsion, he turns to other pursuits, notably a second wife, while she copes with the results of hasty breeding. The children born to them travel into a future that alarmingly begins to resemble their roots and realize that in life magic is at a premium.
Sparkling wit savages societal snapshots as Shinie Antony takes the nice and the nasty to transform her debut novel into a merry carousel of touching moments. Here is a novel that clicks its tongue, asking the Great Indian Family to get moving.
