The book is about Janaki and Janaki’s life from her own perspective. Janaki is a girl of marriageable age, an age where important life decisions have to be made and where in the Indian society pressures, direct or indirect to make those decisions are exerted. Janaki's quiet rebellious and stubborn nature and her dealing with the situations she faces is what the book is about. And her life is, among few other people, affected by her sister and her mother whose interpretations of the same situa...

The story is an interesting narration of the intricacies of mostly, Janu's mind . Anuradha

has used rich imagery, adding a new taste to mundane things like ' carrot halva' and playing

a clever game with 'chalk lines'. Good job!

Anuradha’s book almost slips into the ‘poetic prose’ genre, may be because of her inherent passion for poetry. It is said that prose can be written with extra attention to its beauty, in which case it is called ‘poetic prose’. Of course, the distinction between prose and poetry can be blurred. The interesting and poetic manner in which words flow as a cascade from her pen, as a ‘stream of consciousness’ makes the narration all the more heart-warming.
Though this book is intended to be a n...

Probably not as expected from the debut novel of a young writer, 'Seeing the Girl' is not a simple story with a predictable plot. The deceptively conventional ritual of seeing the girl by a boy for marriage, takes an unexpected turn with intense forebodings of dark things to come, disturbing the hitherto outward calm of a well to do Malayali family of a father, mother and two daughters. The elder girl who is 'seen' is of an enigmatic, intractable character with a world of her own, consisting ...