Screenwriter and author Riva Razdan holds forth on her debut novel ‘Arzu’, a coming-of-age story
First-time author Riva Razdan’s protagonist Arzu (the Urdu name means hope and love) is uncertain about her future, after being dumped by her long-time boyfriend and trying to evade the society circles of Bombay in 1991.
A media baron’s daughter, she nurtures no dream of journalism, until she finds herself drawn to it in New York.
Arzu (Hachette India) is a coming-of-age story of the protagonist at a time when India is on the verge of economic liberalisation.
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