Destination Wedding

An insider look at celebrity-strewn, diamond-studded, brocade-swathed Indian wedding extravaganzas at a time when real life Indian weddings like the Ambani nuptials are embraced by international mediaPerfect for fans of Crazy Rich Asians and The Wangs vs the WorldBasu's supporters include Kevin Kwan, Kamila Shamsie, and Deborah Moggach to name but a few and her debut The Windfall was Book of the Year in Time magazine, and an Editor's Pick in the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone, Esquire and PeopleDiksha Basu is a writer and actor. Originally from New Delhi, she holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University and now divides her time between New York and Mumbai. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Cosmopolitan, Buzzfeed and the BBC. @dikshabasuTina wants to feel Indian. Really Indian. Not Indian in the sense of attending a yoga class in Brooklyn, in the country her parents moved to to make a new life for themselves. She wants to know the real India, only whenever she visits, people take her to bars and restaurants and boutiques that could be anywhere in the world. She gets her chance to get to know the country when she heads to Delhi for her glamorous cousin Shefali's week-long wedding, with her best friend Marianne, her parents and her mother's all-American boyfriend in tow. Navigating a world of Delhi playboys, models, dating agencies for widows, and wedding guests with personal bodyguards, Tina is determined to have an authentic Indian experience, now if only someone would tell her what that was...Thirty years after leaving India for a better future in America, Tina and her family head to Delhi for her cousin's great big Indian wedding extravaganza and wonder if they may have got it all wrong...Praise for The Windfall: Ultra charmingUproarious, beady-eyed social comedy with a big heartA wicked satirist and social critic . The stuff of Amartya Sen's worst nightmares and Tom Wolfe's sweetest dreamsElegantly and humorously exposes the complexities of love and money . expands our understanding of home, beyond the places where we think we belongA complete joy from start to finish