Rambling with Rukka: A Moving Memoir - Softcover

Srinivas, Rukmini; Srinivas, Lakshmi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9357025227 ISBN 13: 9789357025225

Publisher: Rupa Publications India, 2024

Synopsis

Rambling with Rukka, a co-authored book of memoirs written by a mother and daughter, traverses roughly eight decades in the life of Rukmini Srinivas, from her childhood in pre-Independence India in the 1930s to the present day. Rukka’ s father, an accountant with the Southern Command, moved around India and the family experienced first-hand the diversity and variety in India’ s regions and cultures. The book meanders from Poona and stories about Rukka’ s childhood, her mother’ s cooking and kitchen garden, to Rukka’ s life in Delhi with her husband— the renowned social anthropologist M.N. Srinivas, her experiences of juggling family and career, and the family’ s fateful migration to Bangalore in the 1970s before it became known as a tech city. Engaging anecdotes, richly descriptive and by turns poignant, surprising, hilarious, always honest and human, bring people and places alive and take the reader on a delightful journey.

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About the Author

Rukmini Srinivas is a geographer by training, a television chef and an author. An educator at heart, Rukka taught geography, first at university and then in Bangalore schools. She was a field researcher for the first Bangalore City Survey. Her interests are in teaching, cooking, gardening, music and telling stories. Her first book Tiffin: Memories and Recipes of Indian Vegetarian Food was a finalist in the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards and became a bestseller in India. It appeals to readers interested not only in vegetarian home cooking but also in history and biography. Lakshmi Srinivas is a sociologist and anthropologist. Her interests are in film and media, in stories and storytelling, urban life and the natural world. Lakshmi's first monograph, House Full: Indian Cinema and the Active Audience, based on fieldwork in Bangalore, is the first in-depth ethnography of cinema-going in India. Lakshmi teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She has written numerous articles on cinema, film consumption and the lived culture of cinema in India.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rupa Publications India
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9357025227
• ISBN 13: 9789357025225
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320