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Preeti Shenoy, who was in the city recently to launch her new book, The Rule Breakers, tells us why we don’t need someone to make us happy As the story progresses, you find yourself rooting for Veda, a quintessentially, small town Indian girl of the ’90s, who gives up on her dreams to fulfill her parents’ wishes. At the end, she writes to her sister, that she may have lost the love of her life, but has found herself! A realistic story well written is what we tell Preeti Shenoy, author of The Rule Breakers. Shenoy agrees and says, “I am satisfied with the book. The Rule Breakers was a difficult book to write. It took me five drafts. There’s so much happening in the book. There’s the danger of the subplot taking over the main plot, but we managed.” Published by Westland, it is Shenoy’s 11th book, and already a sequel is brewing in the author’s head. At the moment, however, she is basking in the praise of the early reviews for the book. In Pune to launch her latest work, Shenoy e...

Ashwin Sanghi’s Keepers of the Kalachakra, published by Westland, has hit the stands. The author in a tete-e-tete with us, explains the various strands of the stories explored in the book. Anyone who has read Ashwin Sanghi knows that the author links together politics, theology, mythology, economics and politics in a page-turner book. His latest, Keepers of the Kalachakra is no different, where he talks about quantum physics and spirituality (and making it amazingly simple to understand) in bringing out another best-seller. Ahead of his Pune visit to promote the book, we catch up with Sanghi. Excerpts from the conversation: How was the book written — in the non-linear format — the way we read it? It was initially written in linear fashion and then sliced and presented in a non-linear format. Given that the book was about Kalachakra or the wheel of time, I did not wish to present the story as a straight line progression. When you are writing about various periods of history...