*taboo

That may be. I haven’t seen her in person so cannot comment. However, I will maintain that her best work till date has been Difficult Daughters. Everything else that came after have been experiments in tabboo topics. Moreover, her books give off the impression that they were written in a hurry. An example that comes to mind is a line from A Married Woman, where Astha contemplates her skill as an artist: “… but she was no good, she was a beginner, a drawer, a sketcher…” (pg. 147, Noida:IndiaInk, 2002). A “drawer”?! Really? Where, I wonder. In a disused desk somewhere, probably.

I rest my case.