Kavery Nambisan is from Coorg. She studied medicine in Bangalore and got her FRCS in UK. Her interest to work in rural India brought her back to Coorg where she now practises. Though she doesn’t mention it anywhere in the book, it is clearly autobiographical. The book is both easy to read and yet touches upon deeper thoughts. The descriptions of Nalli’s village, environment, family and life seem so real and honest that I could almost feel the morning mist on my skin and taste the kaapi. Dialogues have little titbits of the local language in them which makes it very down to earth. The characters are so well sketched, it felt like I had run into them sometime in my life.

Ashwin Nanjappa reviews Kaveri Nambisan’s The Hills of Angheri.