Please leave a comment, any opinions on the book, website, culture, author or anything. All comments are appreciated 😊 Don’t worry, Monica will read it 😉
A novel with recipes
Please leave a comment, any opinions on the book, website, culture, author or anything. All comments are appreciated 😊 Don’t worry, Monica will read it 😉
Hi Monica,
I just finished reading your book. What can I say? I looove the book, the characters, the storyline. It is nice to read a good book after a long time. Totally awesome. Looking forward to your next book. Please don’t keep us waiting too long.
Hi from Italy. I’ve just finish reading your book. Like it!!! And the recipes too :-))
Hello,
I have just finished the book and enjoyed it so much. My other half is a British Indian Hindu and I am a White British Christian. The Indian culture fascinates me and I love indian food so for me I found this insightful and the combination of the Indian food mixed throughout a fantastic, original way to read the story. Although I am Christian by birth, I do often consider the hindu faith values fundamental to my life. I understand the difficulty with the character’s father, as at first I was rejected by my partner’s parents. I completely relate to the tough times in relationships but like John said in the book, anything with having is worth fighting for. My view of the book is not the typical readers and I admire all those who come to another country and learn new ways of culture, language and values in their own way. Thanks for writing a great book that broadens the knowledge of non-Indians and Speaks so clearly to many Indian readers!
Look forward to reading our other works!
N
Lovely book! Just finished reading it; I laughed and cried throughout. The book has been on my list to read for awhile, but I had to wait a long time to get it from my local library (in New York) because it is quite popular here!
Great book!.Looking forward for your next book.=)
Absoultely entertaining!!! This book was recommended to me two years ago, everytime I tried to purchase from B and N, i had to order it then go back and get it which never happened. Thanks to my 22 yr old son, he presented me with a blackberry playbook last christmas and I purchase the book thru Kobo Books, I read it in two days. I takes me way back to hanging out with the older people and trying to understand their “slangs” and wondered by they unleashed only when their husbands were not around. I can’t wait for your next book. This book brought me back to reality and am now convinced that these things happen in real life and they were not just stories made up by my ancestors!!! Keep it up Monica!!!
Hi – I’m reading the book right now which my sister gifted me and its very well written. I can relate to it and visualise it.
Zindagi na milegi dobara so lets live it.
Namaste,
Punam.
Hi Monica,
I just finished reading The Hindi-Bindi Club. I just loved it, I miss it already! It was such a joy to read about the daughters and mothers and the differences in their relationships and how they see the world differently. I have always felt like an Indian in a Firangi’s body lol (I’m caucasian) and have felt enthralled with Indian culture since I was little. I was dancing the bhangra in my junior high days (the 80’s, seems so long ago, and took a course in hindi a few years later (still cant carry on a conversation though lol). I had friends from India and Pakistan who had similar relationships as those in the Hindi-Bindi club novel. one friend married a christian canadian and they had a ‘double’ wedding in one day – a sikh wedding and a christian wedding, and I was one of the bridesmaids. Your book was so familiar to me in those and other ways. I’m getting old myself and I might have to get a ‘semi-arranged’ marriage soon lol, it makes so much more sense than trying to find the right one in a sea of 6 billion fish.
Thank you for adding recipes to the book as well, I love cooking indian food and my mouth was watering quite a bit. I really hope to see another book soon! *nudge nudge*
This book is beautiful as can be. I couldn’t stop thinking about it. It was amazing and made me come back to my roots in a way. I’m a New Yorker at heart, well because I was born and brought up in the city. Hindi Bindi made me realize… that where ever your from… your an indian. New York New Jersey Canada Rome anywhere. I’m back down now. It inspired me to take indian dance and cook a little 🙂 thank you…. Bauth Bauth Shurkria! Namaste and Love from New York, Rae… The Performer ♥
Hi Monica,
Thank you for taking me on a long walk down Memory Lane. 30 years ago I came to Toronto as a new bride from Mumbai. With all the excitement of the wedding and the longing to join my new husband as soon as possible I had really not paid much attention to all the changes that would enter my life on arriving in Toronto.
As the plane took of from Mumbai that night it suddenly hit me that I was leaving behind my family,friends and everything that was familiar in my life to go to live in a strange,cold land. As I had always been in contact with people from around the globe in my job at the Taj Hotel I really thought that it would be easy to handle living in a new country. Gone was the chauffeur & car, the maids & cook. I had to clean the washroom something that I had never done in my entire life, and wash my own dishes, learn to drive and face so many challenges in a new land.
Looking back at it all after 30 years the upside was that I learned to be independent. Reading your book made me feel so very homesick,and even though everything has changed with my siblings & friends grown up, married with kids of their own. Nothing will change me when it comes to my own land. All that I plan to do is go back someday, walk the dusty streets of Mumbai, smell the air, just sit at Marine Drive & watch the world go by. Take an early morning walk while Mumbai is still just waking up. Stop by on Colaba Causeway and sample the Kulfi, buy fruit from the vendor selling Chicos & custard apples on the pavement and sample their nectar.Walk into the stores that carry all those jewel bright indian cotton & silk outfits and bury my nose in the smell of that fabric. Walk on the beaches in Goa,dine on all the seafood,get my clothes red from the amazing red soil,make friends with people who share the same traditions & customs as myself.
Whenever I visit India it seems like the time just flies and it is time to return to Canada. And as the plane takes of I feel this ache in my heart that is really very hard to describe.
Thank U for this wonderful book that U have written I am looking forward to reading another one in the near future. Take care,
Zeena