The Indian Memsahib is BACK

Suchita Malik the author of The

 Indian Memsahib: The untold Story 
of a Bureaucrat's Wife

After the Rupa Incident, I expected this book to be at least mediocre. I had gone through so much distress and panicking and happiness to attain this book and what do I get? Nothing. Besides my mothers happiness for the correct print.

The Indian Memsahib: 

The Indian Memsahib is about an independent, ambitious women called Sunaina who falls in love and marries and IAS officer called Raghu who is extremely naïve and honest. In the process she sacrifices her job for the cause and travels along with her husband. She accounts all their travels, mixed with challenges and the ups and downs of life.  

My Opinion:

The Indian Memsahib: The untold story of a bureaucrat’s wife. Oh, really? Indian Memsahib my foot! Suchita Malik should have written The Indian Sahib: The Q & A story of an IPS Officer. Period. Nothing more and nothing less, this title best describes the book.

My example:

“What do you do in you job?” asks the wife.

“Oh, me? I  do this and I do that, but you don’t really wish to know the detail but,” he hesitates,

“oh! Please do tell! If you don’t, how will I continue with my life? You telling me about your job is a dream come true!” says the wife.

 “ anyway if you want to know then I…” The husband speaks dragging on and on and on.

“How do you do it?” inquires the wife again looking so hyper oozing with excitement.

 “I know everything. I am just so honest and determined to do my work.” Says the husband naively.

I hope that clears the explanation of my title. Three-Fourth of the book consists of Sunaina's questions and the answers of her husband Raghu. Another problem I faced while reading the book was the fact Suchita Malik tried to uses as many synonyms as possible.

For Example:  

Sunaina is sitting comfortably at ease and relaxed in the couch. Raghu comes back home he is in tension , worry is grasping him and he is extremely anxious.

I hope you understand what I want to convey. If you want to ignore my words and keep reading it please look out for wrong grammar, bad sentence formation and spelling errors, that at least might keep you entertained. Seriously, what do Indian editors do while reading…can they even read?

For being the topping among the worst books I have EVER read

Additional Information:

While surfing google I just found that there is a second book to The Indain Memsahib which just released this February. The new book is called the The Memsahib Chronicles: A story of Grit and Glamour. Its twenty years ahead from which the Indian memsahib ended continuing the story of Sunaina who now describes the privileges of her world, but doesn’t agree with them in a positive point of view.  I am ever so sorry Mrs. Suchita Malik but I sincerely don’t wish to read this, I am extremely sorry I cant give you another chance especially after reading The Indian Memsahib. 

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The Rupa Incident

The account of this story is real and of course it did happen quite recently actually to say the truth it ended  today at precisely 13:00 PM. Without further ado let me start the story.

It was a cold day and the wind blew anonymously causing the leaves to shiver and tumble down to the quite filthy and unclean Earth. For Sanskriti Bist (yes thats me!!) it was quite an unusual one as well. The Rajdhani Train had been 17 hours late causing much havoc to her daily life routine. But her daily life had been practically  abnormal for the past fifteen days. She had been traveling along the hills and valleys of Kerela and swimming through the troughs and crests of the shores in Kovalam. Now being back in Delhi the world seemed so different for one the pile of trash had replaced the Palm trees and the smell of sea water now definitely stank.

As promised by her parents she was all set to go to the Delhi book fair! She was determined to go even though the train had brought her late to Delhi. A chill of excitement awaited her. How many days had she waited for this phenomenon? (Ans. 363.242199 days) She had prepared the whole year (except two days) very hard for this day making list of books she needed to buy, preserving all her pocket money and doing enough research to make her book fair brilliantly organized.

Many books were brought and money was exchanged. So, the book fair ended with her deeply satisfied. She was in complete bliss reading one book after the other. If only life could be a utopian one! But of course in every story there has to be a villain and this is a story. So, eventually this too has a villain but this villain is cunning its the most frightening villain ever exited till 13:00 PM this afternoon. To many it is know as the "The Indian Memsahib."

“Does it make any sense!” Sanskriti Bist’s mother told the her one day but nevertheless finished the book [The Indian Memsahib] and then complained that the pages were mixed up. Oh! The helplessness Sanskrit Bist would have felt if she were ever her mother! But the world isn’t like Sanskrit Bist, her mother didn’t mind and told her to forget about and not to worry about the book it was only RS.195! WORRY! She intensely worried and the book was RS.195 that meant a lot to her. She thought about many books she could have bought with RS.195.  Obviously, her sense of patriotism towards books did not vanish by any chance.

The next morning she sent a mail to Rupa Publications and Company (the original publisher of The Indian Memsahib) about the book and the problems that were faced by it. As usual her mom didn’t agree saying most probably her mail wouldn’t be replied. Now, that hit her hard, she hadn’t given a thought about that. What if that happened… and then the dark side of the force appeared illuminating-

Sanskriti Bist’s Ideas of thrashing Rupa Publications:

1.Twitter: Tell everyone to Re- Tweet till its a global phenomenon! [ Follow me -(http://twitter.com/ sanskritibist)!]
2.Write in the newspaper (HT city's got a column Meri Dilli).
3.Write in my blog.
4.Write in my Facebook wall.

That is the problem with human beings they conclude quickly without know the root of the problem. As for Sanskriti’s case listening to others and falling into their trap of fiction and mostly not having faith in herself and mainly significantly in Rupa Publications & Co.

Sometimes the light has to conquer the dark in this case Rupa Publications did give Sanskriti Bist a mail in the morning. Anonymously without even telling her gave her a surprise by delivering the correctly printed copy of ‘The’ Evil ‘Indian Memsahib’ which caused her and the Rupa Publications so much trouble till 13:00 PM!  So the story ended with a few heightening jumps from Sanskriti Bist who later from sheer excitement typed the whole story in her blog.

THE END

A very big THANK YOU to Rupa & Co [Rupa Publications India Pvt. Ltd. 7/16, Ansari Road, Daryaganj New Delhi,110002].  And the biggest thank you of all to Tanuja who practically made my year so much more better my delivering that mail to me [by 'reach... range... reading pleasure']! Thank you to the whole team that contributed to make my mom’s book come back to our place!

As for the readers this the real story but not as intense as I wrote it! To Suchita Malik who has written this novel if you ever read this which the least likely I am sorry for doing your novel a bad Publicity.[To inform you my mom loved The Indian Memsahib even though it had a few pages missing!] How can I forget @Cambodge Bist: Thank you so much for saying that my last blog was the Best Blog Ever!! It meant a lot!

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