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“When she looked into his eyes, she could see every thought of his, strung out like washed shirts flapping on a line.”
Gautam is already a little high-strung because of his sister’s wedding when he meets Bahaar, the groom’s cousin, who claims to have “arranged” this meeting of theirs. Gautam, who is struggling with his possessive feelings for his sister and his doubts over the suitor, who in his opinion isn’t all that suitable, gets increasingly peeved with every sentence that Bahaar utters. Not only does she seem to possess supernatural powers, the likes of which he has never experienced before, but she also seems to be weirdly obsessed with him. After all, it isn’t everyday that a weird girl with superpowers asks you to have sex with her while their families are socializing with each other.
Needless to say, Gautam is speechless. But Bahaar still has one more trick up her sleeve. Can Gautam handle it?
Originally written to appear in a magazine, The Girl Who Could Make People Naked is in the author’s view, a cheeky look at Delhi’s strait-laced, uptight social milieu that sometimes takes itself a little too seriously. Weird, wonderful, and almost absurd, this is Manjula Padmanabhan at her finest.
Imprint: Penguin
Published: Jan/2018
Length : 15 Pages
MRP : ₹15.00
Imprint: Penguin Audio
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Imprint: Penguin
Published: Jan/2018
ISBN: 9789387625648
Length : 15 Pages
MRP : ₹15.00
“When she looked into his eyes, she could see every thought of his, strung out like washed shirts flapping on a line.”
Gautam is already a little high-strung because of his sister’s wedding when he meets Bahaar, the groom’s cousin, who claims to have “arranged” this meeting of theirs. Gautam, who is struggling with his possessive feelings for his sister and his doubts over the suitor, who in his opinion isn’t all that suitable, gets increasingly peeved with every sentence that Bahaar utters. Not only does she seem to possess supernatural powers, the likes of which he has never experienced before, but she also seems to be weirdly obsessed with him. After all, it isn’t everyday that a weird girl with superpowers asks you to have sex with her while their families are socializing with each other.
Needless to say, Gautam is speechless. But Bahaar still has one more trick up her sleeve. Can Gautam handle it?
Originally written to appear in a magazine, The Girl Who Could Make People Naked is in the author’s view, a cheeky look at Delhi’s strait-laced, uptight social milieu that sometimes takes itself a little too seriously. Weird, wonderful, and almost absurd, this is Manjula Padmanabhan at her finest.
Manjula Padmanabhan (b. 1953), is a writer and artist living in New Delhi. Her books include Hot Death, Cold Soup (Kali for Women, 1996), Getting There (Picador India, 1999) and This is Suki! (Duckfoot Press, 2000). Harvest (Kali for Women, 1998 and subsequently in three separate international anthologies), her fifth play, won the 1997 Onassis Award for Theatre. She has illustrated twenty-two books for children including, most recently, her own first novel for children, Mouse Attack (Macmillan Children's Books, UK, 2003; Picador India, 2004). Her comic strips appeared weekly in The Sunday Observer (Bombay, 1982-86) and daily in The Pioneer (New Delhi, 1991-97). Her most recent exhibition was of etchings and lithographs (London, December 2003).