S Mari was my colleague at ITC, Expressions greeting cards, where I worked for 5 months, at the start of my career as a trainee copywriter. She is the author of ‘Between Filter Coffee and Cappucino: The story of a confused Indian.’ She is on my Facebook list, and I saw her Facebook update saying she had come out with a book, so I was quick to go to Amazon and download it with my Kindle Unlimited Subscription, where the book is available for free. It is being sold for Rs. 250 on Kindle, otherwise. The book traces the journey of a simple homemaker Nandini, who is your typical traditional South Indian ‘filter kaapi’ drinking, ‘all-heart desi mom’ who moves to the US of A with her husband and child to work there and adapts to the cultural changes, which involve more than just the cappuccino and isolation. How she wins over her colleagues and decides home is where the heart is, forms the crux of this short tale, which has a lot of soul, to make up for its hasty writing and s...
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