Srisays

I shifted to Mumbai fourteen years back and since then it has been my home. It is a city which teaches you to fight back and become stronger. It is an extremely accepting city and it embraces you if you love it back. My husband who has spent more than two decades often told me stories of witnessing encounters and the underworld during his college days. It sounded no less than a film. But this book has set a new edge. Men as gangsters and dons is common. What makes this book intriguing is the stories of women as gangsters, drug …

This book is a tale of friendship, love, food, plights of leprosy patients and an ode to the gift of life. Sentaro was a convict who worked in a Doriyaki restaurant. After his boss passed away, his wife became the owner of the shop. The wife didn’t take much interest in the shop due to her ailing health. The sales were not high and Sentaro ran it to suffice for his needs. One day he saw an old lady,Tokue across the street admiring the cherry blossom and smiling at him. Later the lady approached him and requested for an employment to …