babyji
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posted by abha @ 9:17 PM
Abha Dawesar Blog
Family Values has been released! Babyji is now available in French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Turkish, and Thai. The Hebrew and French translations of That Summer in Paris are also out. My site: www.abhadawesar.com
I also have a FRENCH BLOG.
Saturday, February 05, 2005
Abha Dawesar Blog
Family Values has been released! Babyji is now available in French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Turkish, and Thai. The Hebrew and French translations of That Summer in Paris are also out. My site: www.abhadawesar.com
I also have a FRENCH BLOG.
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16 Comments:
salut Abha
Il est tard à Paris ce soir - et je suis fatigué. Je reviendrai demain lire ton blog ; mais je voulais profiter de la chance d'en faire le premier commentaire :) !
Je croise mes doigts pour la sortie de Babyji demain - moi aussi, depuis le temps qu'on en parle, j'ai hate de pouvoir le lire.
Je t'embrasse
olivier
just finished "babyji"...first novel in quite a while to capture me whole- couldn't put it down. loved the juxtaposition of science & emotion...sensuous & smart without being trite. am burning to know more about anamika's journey.
Congratulations, Abha on a very engaging novel, very different from the paint-by-numbers, chic-lit waste-of-trees currently inhabiting bookstores everywhere. I loved the paradox of your main charcter--her innocence and fierce sensuality, and the sensual, smolderingly repressive setting. Also, I enjoyed the way everyone comes out of their shells to flirt and trade thoughts with Anamika.
Your story makes me believe that women are the real reason men sometimes act so crazy. (And here I thought they were just born that way!) Keep seeking, searching, living loving. Write on!
Babyji was fantastic...Anamika was great... I loved the practical apllications of the wave-particle theory...I once had a math teacher quite like Mrs. Pillai ( I grew up in Kochi, Kerala so my math teacher was also a fair south Indian lady)...I love the overlap between India [motherland] and India [Tripta]....that was great!!!
I can't wait to read more of your writing!
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Wow, amazing book. It was a little scary, because it was like reading about myself, and watching Anamika make the same choices and mistakes that I did. Although she slept with more women. :P Not finished yet, but so far this novel has swallowed me whole with its beautiful prose and enormous passion. Can't wait to read more of your works. Thank you so much for this story!
Dear Ms. Desawar,
I have recently finished your novel Babyji and I wanted to write to thank you for this book. I enjoyed it from beginning to end. It is very different from my usual reading material, which tends to be mostly science fiction. I picked it up on an impulse when I saw it displayed at my local Borders. The cover got my attention and reading through it at random it looked interesting. (If I had visited Borders a couple of weeks later, as I did when looking for a copy of Miniplanner, I would not have seen it at all. The store now has three copies but none of them are out on display).
There are things in my background that made it easier to relate to the story. Back in college, about twenty-five years ago, I was involved with the Hare Krishna movement. Today I work as a systems analyst, and it seems that about half of the computer programmers we have grew up in India. Our company cafeteria serves vegetarian items every day (something I would have appreciated in my Hare Krishna days.) It is not uncommon for us to get a new programmer and after he has been working with us a few months he’ll go back to India for an arranged marriage. So you can see that I’ve been around people from India a good part of my life but I’ve never really understood how they look at the world.
I found the main character’s experiences with the caste system to be of interest. I have had some limited experience of this myself. In the Hare Krishna movement caste is not fixed at birth. When you’ve been involved long enough that the guru will take you on as a disciple they give you a brahmin thread and from then on you’re considered a brahmin. I remember one day at the temple this engaged couple came in and wanted their union to be blessed by a brahmana, specifically an American brahmana with white skin. We actually had some real Indian brahmins associated with the temple, but they specifically wanted one of the American converts. What made this even odder was that none of the Americans had ever done a blessing like this. We found someone who basically got some temple paraphernalia and just improvised.
One of the blurbs on the book compared Babyji to Lolita, and I think that influenced my purchase. I had read Lolita many years before and really enjoyed it. While the story of Babyji is quite different from Lolita, I think the comparison is valid, and I don’t think Babyji suffers by comparison to Lolita, which is saying a lot.
I also appreciated all of the quantum mechanics references.
I ended up ordering Miniplanner from Amazon. I plan to get your next book too.
I am currently still reading babyji. I just bought the book yesturday. It is soo good though that I am having a very hard time doing anything else but read!!! I work in a factory on a machine and I try to sneak in a couple pages during my breaks and free time. I was also very happy when my machine broke down so that I could go home and read some more!!!
This book is absolutely amazing because so far it is like a trip into my little fantasy world. I am young, I am adventurous, but i never would have went that far :-) thank you soo much for writing this book!
Addictive little book :)
Bold book...I enjoyed reading it.
I've posted a review on my blog...hope it gets some more people to read your book.
Abha
After reading your book the first thing I wrote to my brother was that after years I read a book to its end and was thoroughly involved with it. Simply the book took me back to my school days and the type of life and thoughts I had during those days. The strange character of life was beautifully presented and I'm sure many of the readers will now look some events in their life with a different angle and many young ones will be motivated to live their lives somewhat differently. I wanted to write lot of things but would appreciate if you can share what was the key factor made you to write such a book.
Mukesh, India
mukeshvv@rediffmail.com
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Salut Abha,
Je suis en train de lire ton roman "Babyji" et je le trouve vraiment intéressant. J'ai deux questions:-(1)Comment t'as eu l'idée de l'écrire?, (2) Est-ce que tu écris en Hindi.
Félictations pour ce roamn.
Naveen Dhiman de l'Inde
Hy Abha Dawesar,
I am so grateful both to your words and hability to take us through the first steps of a soul journey and to internet for making possible for us to share intimately even we are so far away and we have not met.
I feel grateful to your writting as it seems to open so many different and beautiful windows from the soul.
First and foremost the sensuality is treated as a sacred, powerful, confusing and ever changing force leading borh towards selfknowledge and the discovery of the emotional links that let us reach beyond our little worlds. Playing with words I would say that Babijy lend us a unique alphabet: Awareness, Beauty, Caresses-Confussion, Desires, Eroticism, Fascination-Feelings, Growing up, Humidity, Imagination, Jealousy, Knowedledge, Liberty, M, N, Openness, Pleasure, Quest, Reciprocity, Sensuality-Sexuality-Searching-Sacredness, Tenderness, Understanding, Vulnerability, Wisdom-Wonder, Youth, Zen.
While reading I wa feeling blessed in the depth and power of the sensual gift and I felt how much in need of this emotional sensual touch we are in need in the western culture. You have nourish my soul with your words that stirs up my imagination and make me realized how much of India as an essence and as a sensual femenine energy I need to fully enjoy the gift of life.
I amm very grateful and I wish I may be blessed with your email contact as I feel through your writting the connection of the soul i value most in life.
I apogize for any mistakes I make while writting as English is not my language. From the south of Europe from Spain thank you so much for The beauty of your writting and the generosity of your own webpage
Luis Carlos
you helped me come out to myself ...those are big words..with big repercussions. so ... thank you in a big way for the way you painted anamika. for her daring and her intelligence. for you.
I started reading it last night and did not put it down until I finished it. Absolutely fantastic.
Not for the timid!!
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