Name Place Animal Thing (PAPERBACK)  | Released: Dec,2015

Part rant, part reportage. Partly serious and partly funny. Name Place Animal Thing by top film critic Mayank Shekhar is a whacky yet insightful take on desis and popular culture. Covering concerns of a young, urban India, ranging from city, cinema, stardom, and religion to cops, cigarette smoking, social drinking, and social media, each piece has been peppered with Shekhar's characteristic wit and razor sharp observations to simultaneously inform, amuse, and irritate! If you wish to start a conversation, here's the book to pick.?? About the Author Journalist and TV presenter Mayank Shekhar was born in Bihar, grew up in Delhi, and calls Bombay his home. He has been writing on India and pop culture for much over a decade, starting with the tabloid Mid-Day, then Mumbai Mirror, the paper he helped set up under The Times of India group, and thereafter Hindustan Times, where he served as the national cultural editor. In 2006, he was awarded the first Ramnath Goenka Award for films and television journalism.