Diksha Basu

When Tina Das finds herself at a crossroads both professionally and personally, she wonders if a weeklong trip to Delhi for her cousin’s lavish wedding might be just the right kind of escape. Maybe a little time away from New York will help get her mind straight about her stalled career, her recent breakup, and her nagging suspicion that she’ll never feel as at home in America as she does in India. Tina hopes this destination wedding, taking place at Delhi’s poshest country club, Colebrookes, will be the perfect way to reflect and unwind. But with the entire Das family in attendance, a relaxing vacation is decidedly not in the cards. Her amicably divorced parents are each using the occasion to explore new love interests—for her mother, a white American boyfriend, for her father, an Indian widow arranged by an online matchmaker—and Tina’s squarely in the middle. A former fling is unexpectedly on the guest list, a work opportunity is blurring the lines of propriety on several fronts, and her best friend Marianne’s terrible penchant for international playboys is poised to cause all sorts of chaos back home. The accommodations are swanky, the alcohol is top-shelf, but this family wedding may be more drama than Tina can bear and could finally force her to make the choices she’s spent much of her life avoiding.Infused with warmth and charm, Destination Wedding grapples with the nuances of family, careers, belonging, and how we find the people who make a place feel like home.

For the past thirty years, Mr. and Mrs. Jha’s lives have been defined by cramped spaces, cut corners, gossipy neighbors, and the small dramas of stolen yoga pants and stale marriages. They thought they’d settled comfortably into their golden years, pleased with their son’s acceptance into an American business school. But then Mr. Jha comes into an enormous and unexpected sum of money, and moves his wife from their housing complex in East Delhi to the super-rich side of town, where he becomes eager to fit in as a man of status: skinny ties, hired guards, shoe-polishing machines, and all. The move sets off a chain of events that rock their neighbors, their marriage, and their son, who is struggling to keep a lid on his romantic dilemmas and slipping grades, and brings unintended consequences, ultimately forcing the Jha family to reckon with what really matters..

This is the story of Naiya Kapur, a Princeton University graduate who comes to Mumbai to chase the big Indian dream Bollywood. Naiya isn't searching for her soulmate, or hoping to find her roots in the India her parents once knew; she is searching for fame, fortune and fun in the new India.We follow Naiya as she navigates the labyrinthine lanes of Mumbai and Bollywood, where identities are fluid and murky and where lines are meant to be crossed. In the middle of scuttling between auditions and parties of every hue, Naiya enters into a potentially happily ever after relationship that turns out to be an it s complicated one with a neurotic ex-model-turned-film producer. As she battles her demons and tries to deal with her increasingly tangled life, the stage is set for high drama, and her Opening Night.

Author of THE WINDFALL Diksha Basu's THE WEDDING PARTY, following a 35-year-old Indian-American TV producer who, along with her divorced parents, her mother's younger (and white) boyfriend, her best friend from Yale, her hard-partying, baby-coveting boss, and an extensive guest list of family and friends, travels to Delhi to attend the week-long traditional Indian wedding celebration of her fabulous and wealthy cousin, where she begins to reckon with the romantic and professional troubles brewing in her life.

Ce soir-là, monsieur Jha et sa femme avaient invité leurs voisins et amis les plus proches pour les informer qu’après vingt-quatre ans de bon voisinage ils déménageaient pour s’installer à Gurgaon, un des quartiers les plus riches de Delhi. Et ils savaient que cela allait être perçu comme un étalage peu discret de la récente réussite financière de monsieur Jha : la vente pour un prix incroyablement élevé d’un site Internet. Ce que tout le monde considérait avec méfiance et jalousie. Fabuleusement riche du jour au lendemain, monsieur Jha est content, bien sûr. Enfin, à moitié content. Et sa femme pas du tout. Ils n’avaient jamais prévu ça : s’installer dans une luxueuse maison qu’ils n’aiment pas, avoir une voiture avec chauffeur (pour aller où ?), s’habiller avec élégance (ce n’est pas toujours confortable), fréquenter d’autres gens riches (souvent aussi mal à l’aise qu’eux avec leur argent). Bref, être millionnaire n’est pas forcément idéal, c’est du travail à plein temps…