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You are waiting
for the elevator; just as its doors
open, someone barges in before you. You
hold the heavy cinema door open and the
gentleman behind you blithely leads his
companion in without as much as a glance
at you! The child is on a rampage in
your garden and the proud mother looks
on adoringly and proclaims, 'My kid toh
just doesn't listen to me!'
Exasperating? Mortifying? Or just plain
funny? We've all been through these.
Such irksome situations and quirks of
people make us wonder, 'What were they
thinking?' Or were they?
"Acute
observations shot through with humour and
sometimes a sense of barely suppressed outrage."
–
C K Meena,
Author, Journalist
"Subtle
wit and a sense of satire pervade Shefali's new
book - What Were They Thinking. Common problems
faced by the common man (or woman) have been
addressed in an uncommon voice."
–
Shinie
Antony, Novelist
"Kudos
to Shefali for treading the genre of pure humour
which is quite an untouched theme by Indian
writers. She modestly states in the foreword
that the book may not make you laugh out loud ….
I beg to differ since me and my nine year old
nearly rolled off the bed laughing more than a
dozen times! The humour in the book is not lost
on anyone which was very evident by the peels of
laughter at Shefali's book reading recently at
Easy Library."
–
Vanishree
Mahesh, Proprietor Easy Library
To read
a review by Times of India,
Bangalore click
here
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