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Color Me Rich  by  Mohan Deep  Blurb  A sensitive love story of a handsome and talented struggling painter Akash Saigal. What happens when he marries an extremely rich and beautiful artist and art investor Zenobia Taraporevala? Prologue J J School of Art, Mumbai. Taking a charcoal pencil, Akash Saigal started drawing the wood-and-stone structure, popularly known as ‘Kipling Bungalow’. He was sketching sitting on a bench on which, in another era, K K Hebbar, M F Husain, Syed Haider Raza, Sadanand Bakre, V S Gaitonde, even Dadasaheb Phalke had sat with their sketchbooks, sketching the house where the author of The Jungle Book was born. Ganpat Gupte appeared along with two of his gang. Gupte was the nephew of a minister, or so he claimed, and had the arrogance that comes with power. “Ae Akash, kae karto?” Akash looked up at the trio and said, “Nothing much. Just a drawing.” “Okay. What is the day today?” “Monday...

It was in November of 2014 when I was struggling to release my first fiction novel, ‘The Love is dead; long live the Lust’. On one of the promo posts I had put up on FB, I remember Sundari Venkatraman telling me that the protagonist’s name in one of her WIPs is the same as that of the one in my book, Anjali. Little did I know that not only the name but the broad theme is the same too, though treated in a completely different way. The patriarchal society we live in, unfortunately, has got two different set of rules for men and women. While we chose to turn a blind eye to a man who cheats or a philanderer husband, all hell breaks loose when a woman does the same, for whatever reasons. The author, through ‘AAfA’ has tried to highlight and in a way, challenge this ‘he-does-it-he’s-a-Stud; she-does-it-she’s-a-Slut’ mentality. The fact that the author had chosen to promote this one as a ‘romantic suspense’, had kind of prepared me for something different from the out-...