A Place in My Heart by Anupama Chopra

A Place in My Heart by Anupama ChopraA Place in My Heart is a many splendored thing. It is a listicle. It is a celebration of the power of storytelling. It is also an account of a life lived in the Bollywood trenches. National Award winning author, journalist and film critic Anupama Chopra writes about fifty films, artistes and events that have left an indelible impression on her and shaped her twenty five year long career. Shah Rukh Khan is here. So are Super Deluxe and the Cannes Film

Recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize and the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought

while the spirited Taeko rebels by flinging herself into scandalous romantic alliances

from the phenomenon of the successful American scammer to her generation’s obsession with extravagant weddings

Celebrating the first ascent of Mount Everest in May 1953 with exclusive access to the remarkable imagery and private archives of legendary climber and photographer George Lowe

Raising questions about the means to achieve freedom and equality

and for her handsome teenage son

and some suppositions can be dismissed-And much more

and the government

These delightful and timeless folk tales have been her favourites for years

he slipped out of his monastery in India with the intention of spending the next four years on a wandering retreat

Or just the latest manifestation of our human tendency to create other realities

but they’ve never met … until one day when they’re made to sit together