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  • Bhaichand Patel is the author of three nonfiction books: Chasing the Good Life (Penguin Books India, October, 2006), Happy Hours (Penguin Books India, October, 2009) and Bollywood’s Top 20: Superstars of Indian Cinema (Penguin Books India, January, 2012). Retired after an illustrious international legal career with the United Nations, he is now a journalist based out of New Dehli and Bombay.

    I worked with Patel to develop his story and line-edited his prose for his debut novel, Mothers, Lovers, and Other Strangers.

    In this heartbreaking story, the young Indian boy Ravi struggles to rise from a talented artisan family sunk into homelessness, through the dangers of modern Bombay, and finally to wealth and fame as the greatest Bollywood composer of his time. However, when Ravi’s past returns to haunt him his whole life is threatened. A misstep, a chance death, a police Inspector on the trail of a presumed murderer, and finally a frail old man with a secret too great to bear. In the end, Ravi must must choose between his lavish life with his gracious fiancee and the shameful truth about his tragic homeless roots. He must stretch his extraordinary musical talents to the limit, in order to return in his heart to the mother who abandoned him long ago. . .his lost, beloved Radha.

    Patel says:

    “I am overwhelmed, Victoria. You have done a brilliant job with Part 1. You have made it glow. What you have done with Part 2 is amazing. It could not be better. And ending it where you have ended it is perfect. You shouldn’t be editing. You should be writing novels!”

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  1. Bhaichand Patel is a great author in the olden days. And his books are also good to read. Thank Victoria to post this blog…



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MILLLICENT G. DILLON, the world's expert on authors Jane and Paul Bowles, has won five O. Henry Awards and been nominated for the PEN/Faulkner. I worked with Dillon on her memoir, The Absolute Elsewhere, in which she describes in luminous prose her private meeting with Albert Einstein to discuss the ethics of the atomic bomb.


BHAICHAND PATEL, retired after an illustrious career with the United Nations, is now a journalist based out of New Dehli and Bombay, an expert on Bollywood, and author of three non-fiction books published by Penguin. I edited Patel’s debut novel, Mothers, Lovers, and Other Strangers, published by PanMacmillan.


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