LITERATI INVITES YOU TO A BOOK LAUNCH OF
1400 BANANAS, 76 TOWNS |+|AMP|+| 1 MILLION PEOPLE BY SAMIR NAZARETH ON SATURDAY 14TH MARCH 2015 AT 6.30 P.M. AT LITERATI SAMIR NAZARETH WILL BE IN CONVERSATION WITH ANIRUDDHA SEN GUPTA |+|AMP|+| ADITI SAMIR NAZARETH holds a double masters degree in Development Economics and Psychology. He has been writing on socio-economic and environmental issues for over a decade. His experience spans 15 years in the development sector both in India and Internationally including policy & program development on community based solid waste management, drafting national laws on waste, campaigning on issues ranging from genetically modified food to climate change. From sailing through the Indian Ocean and the South Pacific as a deckhand on the Rainbow Warrior (Greenpeace's flagship) to being jailed in a US federal prison for nuclear disarmament, his travels have taken him far & wide. In 2005 he chose a less traveled path leaving behind a 9 to 5 job for exploring little known parts of the Indian coast. His travails and travels is in '1400 Bananas, 76 Towns & 1 Million People'. ANIRUDDHA SENGUPTA worked for 20 years in the fields of journalism, communications and graphic design, He returned to his first love - writing - since he moved to Goa in 2006. So far, he has authored a couple of books in a children's adventure series, a graphic guidebook on environmental matters, and a sprinkling of short stories and comics in various anthologies. He is currently working on a chronicle of his travels by road around India with his wife Anjali and their dogs. Interspersed with all this, he enjoys setting, conducting and participating in quizzes, and is a founder-member of Goa's Sunday Evening Quiz Club ADITI holds a Master's degree in Organizational Behavior & Industrial Psychology from the University of Mumbai. Her passions include traveling, process work and pushing the personal and professional envelope to create beneficial outcomes for herself, the organization and community at large. Currently engaged in Corporate Social Responsibility at a financial services firm at Bangalore, her professional experience spans over a decade during which time she has held key roles in CSR, Fund-raising, Business Operations and Human Resources at organizations like Accenture, Greenpeace, Leonard Cheshire International and a radio station. ABOUT THE BOOK Few of us have the panache to put in our papers, free ourselves from our desks, and take off on a half-year-long trip along the coastal necklace of peninsular India. This richly-flavoured travelogue combines adventure, serendipity, food, and sheer joie de vivre. The narrative irresistibly draws us in as benevolent observers of the many facets and foibles of humanity. Living out of a backpack, in budget lodgings, and eating bananas as a staple, only add to the heady challenges that stimulate the spirit of wanderlust of this maverick-explorer. The tour diary, starting from the remote north-western coastal tip and climaxing, rather precariously, way above sea-level at the potentially sinister Indo-Tibetan border, is an engrossing chronicle of discoveries about the desires, views, tribulations, joys, and sheer zest for living, of the teeming millions of India. Thrown in for good measure, in a refreshingly tongue-in-cheek style, are recipes for some of the gastronomic delights offered in the places traversed. Itinerant sidelights about people of all classes and creeds - fishermen, seafarers, rickshaw-drivers, priests, salesmen, radicals, typical and atypical families, and all the rest - create a colourful kalaidescope that is quintessentially India. This book is as enjoyable and energising as a good cup of chai..
