A dream date, today!
Author and book meeting on a special day and date—and talking with the guests about a project that dreams up alternate realities! The imagined and real collapse into a new reality—a book teeming with characters and action. A red-letter day.
The Red Diary is an incredible, fast-paced read, taking you into new territories! Delightful experience!
Almost Dickensian in vision, depth and range; also reminding an alert reader of faint echoes of W. Somerset Maugham and Jane Austin, in their respective concerns that continue to be of this age as well. Writing that directly speaks to you about multiple dimensions and events, rendered aesthetically into one single pattern—the creative universe.
The narrative hurtles you through a kaleidoscope of colorful incidents. The novel raises important questions about love, devotion, crush, romance—and search for meaning and a loving home in a post-industrial society—concerns enduring for the entire humankind.
The title is intriguing.
Why red? Why not some other color?
With an acute social conscience, with its heart in the right place, the novel exposes modern India and its institutions. Realities of an orphanage, the fashion industry, and family and familial relations—including suicide—are critically laid bare by a sympathetic author, without being judgmental. The journey of an underdog towards fulfillment in tough conditions.
The Red Diary pulsates with energy. Its movements are fast—between past and present. The scenes and dialogues are realistic, not clichéd, a real milestone for practitioners of Indian Writing in English (IWE). The depictions are cinematic in effect—and the use of diary form, again, enhances the narrative value of the well-structured and well-developed story.
The story-arc unspools situations and scenes beautifully—and a new world revealed! A world of struggling humanity, on a deep quest for love and dignity and home! A job is easily done by a master storyteller like Neelamji only.
Another author of lesser talent would have failed. Novel writing is a big challenge but this bureaucrat-cum- the bilingual author knows how to navigate such choppy waters and deliver a first-class work of art.
No doubt, it will become a best seller soon and is the perfect script for the Bollywood or a Netflix series.
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