Rambling With Rukka: A Moving Memoir
Lakshmi Srinivas, Rukmini Srinivas . Rupa Publications India . English
<i>Rambling with Rukka</i>, a co-authored book of memoirs written by a mother and daughter, traverses roughly eight decades in the life of Rukmini Srinivas, from her childhood in pre-Independence India in the 1930s to the present day.<br><br> Rukka�s father, an accountant with the Southern Command, moved around India and the family experienced first-hand the diversity and variety in India�s regions and cultures. The book meanders from Poona and stories about Rukka�s childhood, her mother�s cooking and kitchen garden, to Rukka�s life in Delhi with her husband�the renowned social anthropologist M.N. Srinivas, her experiences of juggling family and career, and the family�s fateful migration to Bangalore in the 1970s before it became known as a tech city. Engaging anecdotes, richly descriptive and by turns poignant, surprising, hilarious, always honest and human, bring people and places alive and take the reader on a delightful journey.
Categories: Biographies, Diaries & True Accounts
About the Author
<b>Rukmini Srinivas</b> is a geographer by training, a television chef and an author. An educator at heart, Rukka taught geography, first at university and then in Bangalore schools. She was a field researcher for the first Bangalore City Survey. Her interests are in teaching, cooking, gardening, music and telling stories. Her first book <i>Tiffin: Memories and Recipes of Indian Vegetarian Food</i> was a finalist in the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards and became a bestseller in India. It appeals to readers interested not only in vegetarian home cooking but also in history and biography. <br><br> <b>Lakshmi Srinivas</b> is a sociologist and anthropologist. Her interests are in film and media, in stories and storytelling, urban life and the natural world. Lakshmi�s first monograph, <i>House Full: Indian Cinema and the Active Audience</i>, based on fieldwork in Bangalore, is the first in-depth ethnography of cinema-going in India. Lakshmi teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She has written numerous articles on cinema, film consumption and the lived culture of cinema in India.
