By NNN-PTI,
New Delhi : Originally intended to find a suitable match for herself, her year-long visit to India, however, turned her into an author!
Fed up with the singles scene in the US, Indian American journalist Anita Jain, who ventured out on a mate-hunting trip to India, has come up with a literary venture chronicling the post-globalisation social climate of the Indian capital, set against the quest for finding the right match.
“It was my idea to take the book to India, of using the quest to marry to tell a story, I was sure those two things would work together,” says the author.
The recently released book ‘Marrying Anita’ published by Bloomsbury and Penguin, according to the writer is an honest memoir a branch of literary work which is yet to become common in India.
“Memoirs are every other book in New York; however, the genre is still not as common in India. I have spoken so openly about my loneliness, some people find it shockingly honest,” says Jain, who was recently in the capital to release the book.
“A confessional account is what constitutes a memoir. Indians are not used to such honesty,” she says.
Asked why she believed autobiographical accounts were not as common in India as in some other parts of the world, she says the country is yet to witness a grand political event or a drastic social change, which provide a suitable backdrop for a personal account.
“Powerful memoirs have come from the parts of the world that have seen remarkable political or social upheavals,” Jain says.