“When everyone around me was advising my father to marry me off, he brushed them aside and trudged with me to coaching classes and then college.”

There’s never a dull moment in ‘When Padma Bani Paula’, Anupama Jain’s debut novel. A coming of age story of our troubled heroine, sidestepping but not always missing the puddles in her way.

"Don’t second guess yourself. I have always believed that ‘A child gives birth to a mother!’ and not vice versa."

As for herself, Sarita had a lot of questions for Mai, but something in her mother’s expression had stopped her from asking her why she was here or how long she planned to be here.

Siddharth was a very smart man. A man of the world. He knew when to hold on and when to leave. He had dropped Pariniti the moment he found another girl.