Love, Stars, and All That

Kirin Narayan

Love, Stars is about the experiences of a desi graduate student studying anthropology at UC, Berkeley. When the white South Asian professor hits on Geeta, it seems like a situation you've heard of before. When Feroze talks about how tense desi women are with him- his irrational guilt, his retreat into detailed, impersonal political theory- one can relate to the context. And Narayan's tale of love among political South Asian Americans rings both hopeful and true. It strokes one's romantic side; it plays to one's fatalism. It's easy to fall in love with the possibilities - and with this book.

Karma Cola

Gita Mehta

What Love, Stars does for the heart, Karma Cola does for the mind. Mehta's training as an essayist and journalist shows. She applies her scalpel-like pen and acid wit to one of the least understood exploitations of the century: the way the West buys and sells Indian culture. The '60s infatuation with India, the abuses by Indian holy men, the sex, drugs and promise of moksha - it's all there. Gita is an author who is both incisive and deliciously funny. She has a huge palette of absurdity to choose from.

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