half-pant moms

Description

The hockey girl of Simdega’s red earth, the firebrand student in Jadavpur University, and the daughter of a dysfunctional home. Ambitious young women of a rapidly changing India. Now adulthood demands its price.

Devi walks away from a promising hockey career only to discover that abandoned dreams do not die quietly. Binodini enters corporate India and finds herself battling power structures and fate. Avantika, scarred by a lifetime of emotional ruin, discovers an unexpected rebirth.

Moving through Delhi, Jharkhand, Guwahati, Rishikesh, and Hyderabad, half-pant moms is an intimate portrait of contemporary Indian womanhood – where motherhood, ambition, sexuality, class, faith, and survival collide. Santhal myths coexist with materialism; tenderness exists beside brutality.

Refusing easy redemption or fashionable cynicism, the novel is a raw, deeply humane exploration of friendship, resilience, and the painful art of rebuilding oneself in a country reinventing itself every day.

About The Author

Rakesh Sainik is a writer based in Delhi NCR. An Arts graduate from Kolkata, he has worked across software development, product management, business development, and continues to work in the IT sector in business operations. Extensive travel across India has shaped his interest in social history, contemporary life, and the inner worlds of ordinary people. Raised in Bengal in a Marwari family, his work reflects an intersection of cultural inheritances and sensibilities. Cricket was his first love, and he still enjoys a weekend game. Off the field, he dives into novels, half-understood pieces on space and quantum science or the riddle of megalithic structures. He is the author of the coffee-table book Sumi Kaori: The Fragrance of Ink . Half-Pant Moms is his debut novel. He is currently working on a second novel set against the backdrop of maritime trade in the first millennium.