Stuffed & Starved

p‘I wish I had never met you. You’ve been nothing but an inconvenience.’p pPart kitchensink realism and part rumination on the nature of love iA Handbook For My Loveri is a revealing and explicit memoir of a young Indian woman’s erotic affair with a photographer thirty years her senior.p pWith prose that is charged with intensity and sensuality this candid exploration of love lust and becoming heralds a provocative new talent in contemporary Indian literature – one of an independent woman unafraid of her sexuality. Rosalyn D’Mello is India’s Anais Nin.p piThe modern Indian woman’s journey into selfawareness through sex heartache desire and fulfilment has found a brave new voice in Rosalyn D’Mello.ip pbThe Hindustan Timesbp piD’Mello lays down her only law – excess. She wants every pleasure of the flesh and she won’t apologise for it.ip pbElle Indiabp pbAbout the Authorbp pRosalyn D’Mello is a widely published freelance art writer based in New Delhi and was the editorinchief of Blouin Artinfo India. She is a regular contributor to iVoguei iOpeni iMint Loungei iArt Reviewi and iArt Review Asiai. Nominated for Forbes’ Best Emerging Art Writer Award in 2014 she was also shortlisted for the inaugural Prudential Eye Art Award for Best Writing on Asian Contemporary Art in 2014. She was associate editor of iThe Art Critici a selection of the art writings of Richard Bartholomew from the 1950s to the early 1980s and was a member of the jury of the Prudential Eye Art Award 2015. iA Handbook For My Loveri is her first book.p