Fresh off the shelf: 5 new books to read

The Dream Chasers
by Vipul Mitra

In Chandigarh University, six friends are working towards the coveted MBA. But while they’re not in their classrooms, they are painting the campus red with their exploits.
Viraat, Sandy, Karan, Mallika, Vandana and Preeto are best friends who ride together, get into trouble together and to add to their complicity, the boys are vying for the attention of the same girl — Mallika.

Marriage Material
by Sathnam Sanghera

The book tells the story of three generations of a family through the prism of a Wolverhampton corner shop — itself a microcosm of the South Asian experience in the country: A symbol of independence and integration, but also of darker realities.

A Rough passage To The Bodhi Tree
by Shiv K Kumar

A prince once gave up everything to attain inner peace, creating the world’s most treasured and well-known coming-of-age story: Siddhartha’s journey to Enlightenment;
his transformation from a mere mortal to an enlightened soul.

The Orchard of Lost Souls
by Nadifa Mohamed

It is 1988. Whispers of revolution travel on the dry winds but still the dictatorship remains secure. Soon, and through the eyes of three women, we will see Somalia fall. As the country is unravelled by a civil war that will shock the world, the fates of the three women are twisted irrevocably together.

In the Shadow of Freedom
by Laxmi Tendulkar Dhaul

A work in progress, the book is a factual account of her father Ganpat Tendulkar, once married to Thea Von Harbou, author and script writer of movies such as Metropolis and der
Niebelungen.

Compiled by Boski Gupta