Reeti Gadekar
Biography of Reeti Gadekar :
Born and raised in Delhi, Reeti studied German in JNU before she earned an M.Phil and moved to Berlin. Gadekar has worked as a translator, librarian and a teacher before she was finally decided to be a writer. Reeti sent in her unfinished manuscript as an entrant in the Man Asia Literary Prize for Unpublished Authors, when her book, Families At Home, got long-listed, she had no choice but to complete it.
Reeti loves surfing the internet, reads Indian news online and umpteen books offline. In between she finds time to cook, garden and practise yoga. Occasionally she writes. She has written two full-length novels: Families At Home and Bottom Of The Heap. “I am working on a series progression in Juneja\'s life,” Reeti mentions about her completely fictitious character that bears no resemblance to any person living or dead.
“I am Indian, and Delhi is instinctive with crime, maybe in another 20 years I will be unable to write about the city like I can now,” she says. “You need to have a message in your head that you need to feel very strongly about, and I feel very strongly about crime and justice,” says Reeti about why she chose to write about crime in her works of fiction.
Bottom Of The Heap
As Juneja battles his personal demons—a father he does not get along with, a girlfriend he often finds himself questioning the worth of, the death of a beloved grandmother, a favoured subordinate being investigated on rape charges, and a head that often refuses to walk the well-trodden path of sanity—he is dispatched to a village in the back of beyond to solve the mystery of a road scam.
Armed with a conscience that is flexible to say the least, Juneja stumbles through scams, rapes, deaths, a gay couple and a suave village aristocrat who has just the right influence in the right places. On the eve of Dussehra, he sets forth on his own battle between Good and Evil, to decide where his allegiance lies, and find out whether he too is part of the throng that crowds the bottom of the moral order.
Families At Home
A suicide in an upper-class, politically connected business family (Talwars) seems to be an open-and-shut case for Additional Commissioner of Police Nikhil Juneja. But things don\'t work out quite like that. The death becomes a murder when Joseph notices grieving Talwars cooking chicken, which is a no-no in a home that has lost a family member. The novel is full of well etched-characters, interesting sub plots, dark humour, extra odinary insights and lot of battles that each character is fighting.