Feeling blue? Read through

Hate to flip through frivolous glossies when you're feeling miserable or pensive? We spread out a collection of cool new reads for every frame of mind

Hate to flip through frivolous glossies when you're feeling miserable or pensive? We spread out a collection of cool new reads for every frame of mind

Mood: Miserable
Title: Life is Perfect
This is a coming-of-age novel revolving around a young woman, who appears to have it all youth, intelligence, money, even beauty. But things aren't as perfect as they seem. Poised on the threshold of adulthood, she tries to find depth and meaning in her world.u00a0u00a0u00a0
Author: Himani Dalmia
Publisher: Rupa & Co.
Price: Rs 195

Mood: Curious
Tehelka as Metaphor
In March 2001, the website Tehelka broke Operation West End, a big undercover news story in Indian journalism. In a rigorously researched and searing authentic account of the exposu00e9 and its aftermath, the author does a forensic study of the imperatives at the root of it, the characters and heroes and villians of the story. In the style of Rashomon, the story is related by numerous participants of the same incidents and none of the stories tally.
Author: Madhu Trehan
Publisher: Roli Books
Price: Rs 595

Mood: Wrecked
Title: Hopes Alive
The compilation narrates the personal stories of women and children, who are fighting the HIV virus and striving to lead a life of dignity and integrity. The NGO release aims at increasing AIDS awareness.
Author: Various
Publisher: FXB India Suraksha
Price: Rs 250

Mood: Arty
Title: Daughters of India
Through 250 illuminating photographs, an American photo-artist profiles 20 women from diverse communities ranging from the rice paddies of far southern India to the plantation of the Himalayas, from the dry western deserts to the verdant east coast, and from tiny villages to enormous cities. They represent the traditional and the contemporary, the repressed and the highly innovative, the outcast and the entrepreneur.
Author: Stephen Huyler
Publisher: Mapin
Price: Rs 3,000

Mood: Introspective
Title: Unsettled
In 2004, the author went to Sudan as one civil war came to an end and another was about to start, to work in the field of refugee protection. As she turned 30, she faced a personal sense of rootlessness; in Indian terms, she was 'unsettled' in every way that mattered. She travelled between the world of Africans and the worlds of Europeans and Americans she had a passport to all, but she belonged to none. This moving personal memoir gets a thumbs-up from us.
Author: Kamini Karlekar
Publisher: Westland-Tranquebar
Price: Rs 295

Mood: Motherly/Fatherly
Title: 100 questions from my child
Spiritual speaker Deepak Chopra's daughter exploresu00a0 questions children ask u2014 sometimes whimsical, often mystical. The book says that each question a child asks presents a chance to change the future.
Author: Mallika Chopra
Publisher: Roli Books
Price: Rs 295