A novel of inheritance and greed -- Arun Shourie's niece writes...

September 12, 2014 11:40

Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, as Tolstoy once noted, but there is something uniquely nasty about an upper-crust family fighting over real estate in Lutyens' Delhi, the lush, spacious bungalow zone at the heart of India's capital.

This is the principal message of "Daughter by Court Order,' a novel published this spring by Ratna Vira, about a woman who has been cut out of her inheritance by her relatives, among them prominent political and intellectual figures. Read

FYI: Ratna Vira is Nalini Singh's daughter and Arun Shourie's niece.

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