The booklaunch at the India International Centre, Monday 9th December 2024 proved to be a scintillating evening of conversation, music and theatre.
IIC President and former Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran, eminent author and MP, Shashi Tharoor and Ambassador Veena Sikri, ex-diplomat and Convener, South Asian Women's Network, joined the author to unveil the book to the stirring strains of the musical overture to Carrying the Torch. Adorning the book's cover is an eye-catching painting by Rabindranath Tagore. Living Room Theatre artists Dipali Bhasin and Jimmy Hasija regaled the audience with dramatized readings of excerpts from Becoming the Storm, providing a vivid glimpse into the challenges Indu, the teen-protagonist faces, waylaid in her dreams by the oppressive attitude of the family of the "suitable boy".
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