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Ratika Kapur

Biography

Ratika Kapur

Ratika Kapur's first novel, OVERWINTER, was longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize. Elle magazine's Indian edition included her in a Granta-inspired list of 20 writers under 40 to look out for from South Asia. She lives in New Delhi with her husband and son.

Ratika Kapur

Books by Ratika Kapur

by Ratika Kapur - Fiction

Renuka Sharma is a dutiful wife, mother and daughter-in-law holding the fort in a modest rental in Delhi while her husband tries to rack up savings in Dubai. Working as a receptionist and committed to finding a place for her family in the New Indian Dream of air-conditioned malls and high-paid jobs at multi-national companies, life is going as planned until the day she strikes up a conversation with an uncommonly self-possessed stranger at a Metro station. Because while Mrs. Sharma may espouse traditional values, India is changing all around her. And it wouldn't be the end of the world if she came out of her shell a little, would it?