Bøger af Nidhi Dalmia

Set in the context of the zeitgeist and idealism of the late sixties, Harp is about love, longing and coming of age. The three main protagonists---a young man travelling in a Europe-less-travelled including the Iron Curtain, a young woman who has a calling to music, and another young woman who has loved and lost once---provide the frame of this narrative about journeys we make across countries, even as we embark on a private quest within to know ourselves better, and to seek what it is we really want from life.Moving through India, Europe and USA, Harp follows the lives of these three young people even as they engage with the cultural, sexual, student revolutions, and the music of the sixties.

Set in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York, Kashmir and Delhi in the late '60s, intertwinedwith the significant cultural, student, sexual and intellectual revolutions taking place around thattime, Afternoon is the story of a young student finding the love of his life and two young women whose lives intersect with his at different points of time.It is also the story of a Kashmiri Muslim girl who carried memories and impressions of her homestate but grew up in Delhi.The other woman, an American Field Service worker from Upper East Side New York, finds life taking unexpected turns on a short field visit to India. Her visit confirms her decision to go to Berkeley instead of the Seven Sisters where she had also got admission because of her academic brilliance.The Cold War mentality and way of looking at each other had not left either America or the USSR.Conscription and a highly unpopular Vietnam War were raging. The Establishment in Berkeley andelsewhere in California was as determined as the idealistic students to get its way, which meantcrushing their movements.There are threats to these relationships from other interested parties and events. The decisions that areinvolved in inter-continental relationships. The belief that there is nothing more important than love.Afternoon best reflects how our lives are shaped by the choices we make and factors beyond our control.