Books I have loved in 2008

It's so hard to keep track of all the books that I have read and loved in this year..but I am trying to put in names as and when they come to me..I just LOVED reading 'The Case of Exploding Mangoes'. its brilliant dark humor had me enthralled, and the book also had one of the most tender depiction of homosexual love that I had come across in the recent times. I was laughing hysterically at many places, and also felt saddened at the fate of a country spinning so dangerously out of control. 

confessions

So the question that I am invariably asked by people these days is ' so how are you liking Delhi?' And frankly, when I look inside myself for an answer I draw a blank. It's strange but my mind remains blank when I think of the city..no emotions..

But I have a confession to make..the city's mall crowd makes me nervous..everyone's so fashionably turned up, in all the latest winter fashion, with matching boots and cardigans, that I end up like an absolute fashion reject walking down every evening in front of the N block market in my over-used brown salwar, black shawl, and scarf wound tightly around my head since I can't take too much of the cold wind that blows across my face. I look at women alighting out of their big silver cars, lovely tote bags on shoulder, a cell pressed tightly to one ear, not even a wisp of that shiny jet black hair out of place, and confidently striding across to the innumerable shops and watering holes that dot N market..and I am once again missing my Cal crowd, with their fashion-may-not-care attitude that mixes and matches anything under the sun, with their loud chatter, and in that moment I know that I don't belong here