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“I suppose people want to have children for all sorts of
reasons. I knew why I wanted to. (This is a big thing for me;
I seldom have a clear idea of anything.) Being the infantile,
continually perplexed, perplexing, obsessed-with-obsession
sort of twit that I am, I wanted to grow up. Or at least
feel grown up. Nothing — travelling around the world on
my own, having a job, being married, seeing my name on
the cover of a book — has made me feel as grown up and
responsible as crossing the road with my index finger inside
my daughter’s fist.”
In our country, most books about parenting turn out to
be books about motherhood. Do you recall reading about
parenthood from a father’s point of view? Now, from one
of the most distinctive literary voices of his generation
of writers, comes a book about the pleasures and perils
of being a 21st century father. Based on an immensely
popular weekly column in Hindustan Times, Dad’s the
Word talks about why we want to have children; how
they come to shape our lives; and how every moment of
being a parent is evanescent and unrepeatable.
With warmth and wit, Bhattacharya describes the
unconditional love, the anxiety and the self-doubt that
colour a father’s life. Insightful, funny, tender, intensely
honest and moving, this is a memoir in which you will
see yourself. If you are a parent, or ever want to be one,
here is a book you can’t do without.
ISBN - 9789381626320
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Pages : 212
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