When Mumbai was still Bombay – Yasmeen Premji releases her debut novel ‘Days of Gold and Sepia’

When Mumbai was still Bombay - Yasmeen Premji releases her debut novel 'Days of Gold and Sepia'“Lalljee Lakha, an impoverished villager from the deserts of Kutch, who comes to Mumbai, makes his fame and fortune, and eventually becomes the city’s uncrowned cotton king.”

The story of Lalljee Lakha, set in the turbulent era between the First War of Independence in 1857 and India’s independence in 1947, is narrated in the book Days of Gold and Sepia by Yasmeen Premji, wife of IT czar Azim Premji. It is her paean to what was to become the great metropolis of Bombay.

via www.thehindu.com/news
www.dnaindia.com/bangalore/interview
http://harpercollins.co.in/BookDetail.asp?Book_Code=3339

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