Rituparna returned to India after two decades of reporting from Silicon Valley. She had just published her memoir of healing from childhood abuse. Just as she embarked on her book tour, she began to receive an outpouring of tales of intimate partner violence from the readers of her book and her columns for a national newspaper. They come first as a drizzle, soon as a torrential downpour, ultimately taking over her entire life and work. Untold stories of lust, secret laughs, knife wounds and tears and love, always love. From the mansions of South Bombay to the powerful families of New Delhi. From the genteel and conservative to the loud and liberal. From slums to five-star suites. From eighty-year-olds rediscovering intimacy to thirteen-year-olds embarking on new journeys. From the world's largest legion of 73 million single women, to those celebrating jubilee marriages. Tsunami after tsunami of stories of Indians. Of our rage. Of our abandonment. Of our losses and of our broken hearts. Of who we are today, beneath our endless charades and rituals. And why. How India Loves is four years of love stories collected from across the country. Stories that reveal our utter deep loneliness even when we are in love.
Book Description
A sweeping reportage of love in India
About the Author
Rituparna Chatterjee is an award-winning and bestselling author, journalist and columnist. She is a former foreign correspondent and columnist for The Economic Times and The Times of India. Her long standing column of many years, 'California Dreaming', on her life as a global Indian was first published in The Economic Times and later moved to The Times of India. A hallmark of Chatterjee's journalism and the books it inspires is using her life as a blank canvas to allow others to tell their stories. And consequently, using unique insider and outsider perspectives to make sense of daily life, technology, politics, gender, mental health and love, in the world's largest democracies, India and the USA, for the world.
Apart from children's stories published in various anthologies, Chatterjee's published books include An Ordinary Life, on the life of a movie star, and the deeply moving The Water Phoenix, a magical realism memoir on an abused child's lifelong journey to understand what was love and what wasn't. The Water Phoenix won the United Nations' Laadli Award for Gender Sensitivity for Best Book Nonfiction (2021) and was in the top five bestselling nonfiction of 2020 and number one on Google India. The book received rave media reviews: India Today called it "vivid and brave", The Times of India called Chatterjee "courage personified", Outlook called it "brilliant...a new movement in literature," Mumbai Mirror said "Devastating...deliberately and lovingly written...Chatterjee can write beautifully and vividly." Nikkei Asia Review said "(the book was) brave, benefitting the many children (over 1 billion) who are still suffering in unknowing silence."
Chatterjee spent the following four years conducting hundreds of interviews and research across the world's largest democracy for her third book How India Loves. And its sequel How India Spends.
Chatterjee divides her life between her homes in Califor
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