Sultry Days

Shobhaa De, Voted By Reader's Digest As One Of 'india's Most Trusted People' And One Of The '50 Most Powerful Women In India' By Daily News And Analysis, Is One Of India's Highest-Selling Authors And A Popular Social Commentator. Her Works, Comprising Both Fiction And Non-Fiction, Have Been Featured In Comparative Literature Courses At Universities Abroad And In India. Her Writing Has Been Translated Into Many Languages As Well As French, German,Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish And Turkish. She Lives In Mumbai With Her Husband And Six Children.On A Sultry, Rainy Bombay Day, Nisha, An Impressionable Teenager, Meets God In The College Canteen And Falls In Love With His Ragged, Bearded Looks And Crude, Streetwise Manners. God Patronizingly Accepts Her In His 'group' And It Is In This Way That Their Long And Passionate Romance Begins. God's Driving Ambition Leads Him Into The Unreal World Of Pseudo Poetry, Art For Hire And Compromised Journalism While Nisha Lands A Job In Advertising. Sychophants, Court Jesters, Whores, Dirty Old Men, Fixers, Pretty Boys And Party Girls Drift In And Out Of Their Lives As Their Careers Take Off With Dizzying Speed. And Then, Abruptly And Harrowingly, Everything About Their Lives Goes Wrong.