Aftertaste

by Namita Devidayal

Description: In her bestselling novel Aftertaste (over 5000 hardback copies sold), Namita Devidayal provides a captivating account of a baniya family settled in Punjab headed by a matriarch, Mummyji, who is in hospital after a stroke. The Todarmal family, glued together by money not love, includes the weak and emasculated Rajan Papa who is desperately in need of cash;
Sunny, the dynamic head of the business with an ugly marriage and a demanding mistress; Suman,the spoilt and greedy beauty of the family who is determined to get her hands on Mummyji’s best jewels; and Saroj, Suman’s unlucky sister, who has always lived in her shadow. Each one of them wants Mummyji to die.


• Aftertaste has sold over 5000 copies in hb.
• The Music Room has sold 7000 copies in hb and over 5000 copies in paperback.
• A lead title for Random House India
• This is upmarket Shobhaa De and Ekta Kapoor—a riveting family soap opera
• ‘An addictive soap opera about deep-fried politics in a Marwari family-owned sweets business.’—CNNGo.com
• ‘With a collage of details that appear so real they cannot be genuine, Aftertaste offers tantalizing views inside the quintessential Marwari family.’—Ibnlive.com
• ‘Buy a Bournvita Barfi, curl up on a sofa, and enjoy!’—Business Standard
• ‘Effortlessly captures the bania’s obsession with money and questions the notion of the great big happy Indian family.’—Mumbai Mirror

Namita Devidayal was born in 1968 and graduated from Princeton University. The Music Room, her first book, was a winner of the 2008 Vodafone Crossword Popular Book Award and was named an Outlook book of 2007. A journalist with The Times of India, Namita lives in Mumbai.


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