Frog Books launches
two books of fiction
Mumbai:
Frog Books, a one-year-old book
publishing house based here, has launched two news
books: Where Doves Fly, written by Kamlesh
Rajesham; and In the Pink of Wealth, by Sumit
Ghoshal. Both the books were launched separately at the
Press Club, Mumbai.
Where Doves Fly,
a children’s book with an anti-war perspective, was
launched by distinguished journalist and writer Kumar
Ketkar, who edits Loksatta, the largest-selling
city-based Marathi daily. London-based writer and poet
Sudeep Sen and well-known author and columnist V
Gangadhar too spoke on the occasion.
In the Pink of Wealth, a novel
about health, hospitals and hassles, was launched by
well-known infertility specialist, Dr Aniruddh S Malpani.
Dr S V Dagaokar, former vice-president of the
Maharashtra Medical Council, and Dr Arshad Ghulam
Mohammed, ex-president of the Indian Medical
Association, Mumbai, also spoke on the occasion.
Rajesham practised as a lawyer for a
couple of years in India before she lived in America and
Canada for a decade. She also earned a masters degree in
business administration from Pennsylvania, USA. He first
book, Straight From the Soul, is a New Age /
Metaphysics book. This is her second book and the first
one in the children’s book category.
Ghoshal, who has been a reporter with
a number of mainstream newspapers in Mumbai, has written
extensively on hospitals, medicines and doctors for over
15 years. Talking about his work, Ghoshal said many of
the episodes in the novel were drawn from real incidents
that happened in different hospitals in the city at
different times.
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