Nine Lives - Lives at the Edge of Work and Home  (Paperback, Venkatachalam Viswanathan)

The 1990s in India marked a period of rapid transformation. Liberalization brought in corporate culture, computers, emails — and a whole new way of life. Nine Lives explores this fragile terrain, when material success often meant climbing the corporate ladder — but also invited anxiety, loneliness, and quiet disillusionment. These nine emotionally layered stories unfold in glass towers, rented flats, kitchen corners, and crowded buses — lives shaped by pressure, pride, and the silent need to endure.