Mere Paas Maa Hai : Ten years. Two hundred forwards. One argument India cannot stop having by RAJU.

Brief on the author and the book: Rajendra Prasad Boddapati, writing as RAJU, is a Hyderabadi through and through — raised in Mehdipatnam, shaped by this city's gift for holding humour and history in the same sentence. For ten years he did what most of us do: got forwarded things, argued about them, forwarded some back. Unlike most of us, he kept notes. If your family WhatsApp group has ever gone silent-then-explosive over a forward... if you've typed out a fact-check reply and deleted it before sending... if you grew up on Dakhni one-liners and Hyderabadi wit and still wince at how flattened our politics has gotten — this one's for you. Mere Paas Maa Hai is what those notes became — six Acts on Indian politics, cinema, religion, nationalism, geopolitics, and Hyderabad itself, told with the city's own tehzeeb and its refusal to take anything, including itself, too seriously. Foreword by Mir Ali Husain — academic, cultural historian, and a familiar face to anyone who's spent an evening at Lamakaan talking about things that matter. This isn't a lecture on misinformation. It's an argument, told the way Hyderabad tells its arguments — with an edge, with warmth, and the expectation that you'll talk back.

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