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I like it for this. I really do. You see because I was such a star kid. By thirty, I thought I’d have written couple books or started a successful company or produced a film or two and traveled a ton, done a lot of good for the community of humanity.

I just read a wonderful blog post written by a Chicago actress about body image. The advice she was given, nay the “wisdom”–lose weight, you need to get a nose job to get cast, you’re not believable as a love interest (got to love that last one) are all sadly accepted as part and parcel of the acting business.

My sons know this house rule well.

I am on Facebook to promote my book.

I must open this by saying that I am rather partial to African Americans. Perhaps because in part I am a woman of color. Perhaps because the people of the state I am from–Kerala bear a strong resemblance to black folk. We could easily be cousins if you take clothing and language out of the equation.

It was a sad sad day in December or so, I remember. I had turned 25.

I was watching some TV and stuffing my face with a giant bag of cheddar and sour cream chips (newly discovered since I had only a few months ago moved to the US). They were crunchy, ridged and just the best thing ever. I was also washing them down with coke or some other (vile, I know, but delicious) soda.

I have a friend.

Maxine Rosen, a demure, clumsy, Chicago caterer gets more than she bargains for when she discovers her father’s coded research document linked to health pills unearthed from the ancient Indus Valley civilization. The pills, she learns, carry frightening secrets about the true nature of her father’s death; a truth that may be more than she can bear. Enlisting the help of handsome professor Julian McIntosh, Max travels across the continents to unlock the mystery of her father’s research, struggling to keep one step ahead of a powerful German pharmaceutical company who will stop at nothing to keep the disturbing document under wraps.

A diffident catering company owner, Max Rosen, learns of the existence of a coded research document authored by her late scientist father. This research is linked to health pills that were unearthed from the site of the Indus Valley Civilization in ancient India. The pills were once the mainstay of German pharmaceutical giant Berliner that Max’s grandfather worked for. And these pills were used in horrific Nazi era medical experiments.

Mohenjo-daro - Mound of the Dead

Ranjini Iyer was born in Germany and grew up in India. She trained as an engineer purely because she hero worshipped her PhD holding dad. She then got herself an MBA in the U.S and stayed on.