Some pre-event invites in The Hindu & The Statesman.

These and other pre-event invitations ensured a full house on 8 August 2013. The hall was filled to capacity with not a single chair vacant and people finding it difficult to enter. What more could a debut author ask for. This was possible only because family, friends and colleagues came in large numbers. It was a wonderful evening with classmates from Lucknow, LSR, JNU and batch mates, colleagues and seniors from the bureaucracy rubbed shoulders bringing the many different worlds that I have inhabited together for one evening.
But the icing on the cake was when Dr.Shashi Tharoor, Minister of State for Human Resource Development during his address announced that he had seen many book launches and this is by far the best! Three cheers to the organizing team from LiFi and my own colleagues and friends who chipped in to make the book launch of "Fly on the Wall & Other Stories" a success. Dr.Tharoor went on to exhort the audience to buy as many copies as they could so that there could be a re-print and advised that in the next edition, the cover design should be worked upon a little more to do justice to the contents within. As they say, Insha allah, many more editions should come through.