Jul 24 2022 to Jul 24 2022 noon

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Price: Free

Where

Ranga Shankara

36/2, 8th Cross Rd, R K Colony, 2nd Phase, J. P. Nagar 560078

Event Description

Ranga Shankara and Paperback Book Shop present Celebrating books with The ‘Water Phoenix’ by Rituparna Chatterjee, A memoir of childhood abuse, healing and forgiveness. About the book When Rituparna suddenly loses her mother at the age of five; she is shipped off to a trusted relative so she can grow up in a loving family. Instead, she finds herself bullied, sexually abused and has the first of several near-death-experiences. She grows up unsure of where love ends and cruelty begins and struggling to process the world without the dark lens of abuse. The acute anxiety, panic attacks, and severe depression follow her from boarding school to her move to Silicon Valley After her sense of reality is shaken by series of unexplained events, she, an atheist, finds her way to healing in the most unexpected quarters - looking within and opening herself up to a series of surreal spiritual events. How does she cope with what has happened to her? And how does she heal and find her way into a truly fulfilling life? Haunting, evocative and brave, Rituparna Chatterjee's ground-breaking magic realism memoir The Water Phoenix gives voice to the countless victims of abuse who still find it difficult to speak of their trauma in today's India. Most of all, The Water Phoenix is the story of transcending trauma and coming home to oneself. About the author Rituparna Chatterjee is an award-winning author, journalist and columnist. She writes California Dreaming, a column for The Times of India on her life as a global Indian. Rituparna is a former foreign correspondent and columnist for The Economic Times. Her first book An Ordinary Life (Penguin/Viking, 2017) was on the life of the Emmy Award-nominated actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui. Her second book The Water Phoenix (Bloomsbury, 2020), a magical realism memoir of how she healed from childhood abuse, was in the top five bestselling nonfiction of 2020 and number one on Google India. The Water Phoenix was also the 2021 winner of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Laadli Award for best book of the year (non Fiction). Rituparna is now writing a novel.

*Masks compulsory *All COVID-19 protocols will be followed

Venue: Ranga Shankara 36/2, 8th Cross Rd, R K Colony, 2nd Phase, J. P. Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560078

Phone: 080 2649 3982

Date: Sunday, 24th of July 2022

Time: 12Noon

Entry: Free