Single in the City
Contents: 1. The Beginning. 2. Bridget Jones’s Desi Diary. 3. Taken for a Ride. 4. The Time I Got My Car. 5. Chitty Chitty, Bong Bong. 6. Fishy Tales. 7. Crossing Borders. 8. How is this for a job: Engineers who plug in. 9. Oh Mother! 10. Mother, do you think they’ll drop the Bomb. 11. Flying High with the North Indian Male. 12. Beautiful People. 13. Catching a Tiger by his tail. 14. Dog Days and nights. 15. Love on the rocks. 16. Men in the Kitchen. 17. Expats, at a crossroad. 18. Why Snooty Delhi opens homes to foreigners only. 19. Bananas over breakfast. 20. Green eyed monster. 21. Art of Living together. 22. Age? No Bar! 23. Hospitality and housekeeping. 24. Black sheep and the parent trap. 25. The Mark of married woman. 26. Killing me softly with his song. 27. Driving me crazy. 28. The Bua Constrictor. 29. Let’s Not talk about sex, baby. 30. Bundles of Joy. 31. Internet Babble. 32. Mommies, family and friends. 33. Wanted: A No-Objection certificate. 34. Motu and Moral dilemmas. 35. The empty pad syndrome. 36. Lonely at Christmas time. 37. Guess who’s coming to dinner? 38. Handling with kid gloves. 39. Why can’t we be Bindaas? 40. The Biological Clock. 41. Look Who’s stalking. 42. Oh, Brother! 43. ‘Privileged’ Leave. 44. When Nature calls. 45. Of Delhi’s Walkers, Hares and hounds. 46. Bad Girls and drinking sprees. 47. Marriage of convenience. 48. The Innerwear intrigue. 49. Bua Constrictor, the Sequel. 50. Matinee, Evening, Night. 51. Small is beautiful. 52. Happy endings. 53. Room with a view. 54. Singing for sex in Connaught Place. 55. The Fear factor. 56. Aap ki Jodi Salamat Rahein. 57. Footloose form Delhi. 58. Car Relationship Management. 59. Sarojini’s Market Economics. 60. The Jobs that pay our rents.
In single in the city a collection of the eponymous column that Sushmita Bose wrote for Hindustan Times, she presents a humorous and sardonic take on the seemingly unending roller coaster ride lie can become when one is single in the city.
A humour packed book with natty illustrations, single in the city promises to have the reader in splits at the turn of almost every page.
