From baby bump troubles to nappy changing woes, follow Sense's humorous look at modern motherhood in India.

From “Are you throwing up yet?” and “Where’s the belly? I want to see a belly!”   to "Do you have milk?" and "No leaking?" , Sense has to grapple with not just her new found feelings with pregnancy and motherhood, but the barrage of oddly disturbing questions and advice from friends, family and so-called well-wishers.

This book traces the journey of a young Indian couple through the eyes of the mother. As she goes through a myriad of 'first time' experiences, with often hilarious results, she hopes to get though motherhood with her sense of humour (and sanity) intact. All the while hoping she hasn't permanently scarred the baby.

More about the book:

Sense has been banned from a discotheque, a multiplex, several restaurants, a shopping mall, a plane and many other places of recreation*. And this was even before the baby was born. Yes, Sense was expecting. A baby.

To make things worse, she has to contend with having no permanent address, a set of friends who think nothing of scrutinising her like a specimen under a microscope and relatives who mean hell well. Then there’s the journey of re-discovering her constantly body, which for anyone who has crossed puberty is not in the least pleasant – now it’s cold, now it isn’t; now it’s fat, no, it isn’t; now it fits, Ha! Now it doesn’t! All very confusing.  For someone who’s prided on knowing her mind since she was three, this was all going horribly wrong.

Come due date, and Sense, as usual has managed get herself into a pickle and is once again, very nearly banned from the hospital*! Can the Baa-lamb (who has the patience of a saint) and Senses’s parents (whose understanding parallels the Dalai Lama) guide her through these tumultuous times? Will the little one survive Sense’s adventures unscathed? And what other adventures are in store for Sense and family in this journey called Motherhood?

*She staunchly insists this is through no fault of hers and blames it squarely on extenuating circumstances.

About the Author:

Daughter. Friend. Sister. Wife. Mother. None of them quite define Rajni Arunkumar. But they are a part of what makes her her. Rajni is not a psychologist. She is definitely not an expert in child-rearing. In fact she’s a self-confessed domestic disaster. And a bit of a drama queen. But she realised that the more she wrote about her experiences on her blog (www.senseslenses.com), the more other mum – and dads were able to relate to it and were secretly glad that someone had the good sense to laugh about it all. And that’s how the idea for ‘The Mother of All Books’ germinated.

Says Rajni ‘Somewhere between being a DINK with absolutely no responsibilities to becoming a full-time mother, I discovered what I was truly meant to be doing – making people laugh at my expense.’

She is currently hard at work being a seasoned ‘disaster-mum’ the second time around, or as she claims ‘researching book number 2’.