Hacks And Headlines - A Novel By Rashme Sehgal

I was asked to review a first novel by my dear friend Rashme Sehgal, Hacks & Headlines. It is no accident she was married to my dearest friend Anil Saari. Rashme started her career in the 1970s as a poet and short story writer. She moved to journalism and went on to work for several leading Newspapers including The Independent, The Telegraph, The Times of India. Some of the landmark events she has covered during her journalistic career have been the exodus of the Kashmiri Pandits from the Valley; the destruction of Babri Masjid in Ayodhya. the Kargil War, and more recently, the Taj Corridor scam.

She is currently working as a columnist for the Asian Age and working on an ambitious second novel integrating the Mahabharata into a present day story.

Here is my non-literary assessment of her brave first novel:

http://www.asia-major.com/reviews/TRK/rashmesehgal.html

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