Dark Blossom
Author: Neel Mullick, Publisher: Rupa
Dark
Blossom
Author: Neel Mullick,
Publisher: Rupa, Price: INR 216/-, pp – 256, Fiction, PB
Sam returns home from a
business trip a day before his son’s thirteenth birthday and is looking forward
to being with his family, when his world is cruelly shattered in one fell
swoop. Initially he thinks he can cope with the loss, but finally seeks the
help of Cynthia, an experienced therapist, to regain his equipoise. What he
does not know is that Cynthia herself is trying to cope with a debilitating
divorce and the sinister shadow of her ex-husband over her daughter…What
happens when doctor and patient find themselves in the same sinking boat?
Moreover, when they are rowing in opposite directions—one clinging to the past,
and the other unable to get rid of it! In the midst of it all is Lily,
Cynthia’s daughter, who harbours a secret that has the power to explode the
lives around her. Taut with tension and intensity, Dark Blossom is a glimpse of
what lies under the surface of apparently ‘normal’ people. With degrees in software
engineering from Carnegie Mellon, USA and business administration from INSEAD,
France, Neel is the Head of Product and Information Security at a Belgian
family-office technology company.
He mentors women
entrepreneurs through the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women (UK), is involved
in raising a generation of digital and socially aware leaders with the Steering
for Greatness Foundation (Nigeria), and supports improvement in the quality of
life of domestic workers at Emprendedoras del Hogar (Peru). Spending his time
across three continents, working with people from six, and having travelled to
all seven, he firmly believes the solution to a rapidly fracturing world lies
in peeling enough layers to discover the similarities, rather than judging on
mere superficialities.
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