Book: Men On My Mind by Radha Thomas

Radha Thomas

It’s a pleasure indeed to be acquainted with the multi-talented, multifaceted Radha Thomas.  She’s a Jazz singer, columnist and an author. Radha is recently making news for her debut novel Men On My Mind, a Rupa imprint. The book is being touted as ‘wickedly funny’ and is the first of a trilogy.

Radha began singing professionally as a teenager in a rock and roll band called Human Bondage, which was India’s most popular band in the 70s. She represented India at European jazz festivals and made her way to New York, the home of jazz, where she lived and performed for almost 20 years. She has three albums to her credit. Her Bangalore based band UNK playing an eclectic mix of jazz, blues, Indian music, funk and hip-hop is a rage with city’s music lovers.

Men On My Mind

“Men On My Mind” is a witty take on women’s outlook on men. Veteran jazz singer Radha Thomas’s debut novel is a woman’s hilarious understanding of men—who come in various physiques and personalities.  – The Hindu

If you are searching for the perfect man (for having sex), then the book by Radha Thomas will reveal the travails of the search – Bangalore Mirror


Blurb 

The discovery of MAN is never-ending, and the world is a very big place…

You’re a girl from the land of the Kamasutra. And everyone expects your love skill to comprise the acrobatic, the inventive, the superlative. You try, of course, to gamely meet the baffling requirements of the men who walk in and out of your life. But how much can you really do, when your investments yield minimum returns and maximum weirdness?
When your mother’s words keep ringing in your head: “You need a least five men to fulfill you, sweetie. Remember Draupadi?”

From starry-eyed crushes to lustful longings, from Catholic convents to raucous nightclubs, from boarding-school bloomers to the Open Butterfly G-string, from lovers to stalkers to philanderers – Radha Thomas takes you on a crazy ride through Mumbai, Delhi, Beijing, Rotorua and New York, in the age-old quest for The One.
A wickedly funny and flirtatious book about that mysterious thing called love, Men on My Mind is a delicious mix of sex, adventure and discovery that you must not resist.

Author Bio

Radha Thomas was born in Tamil Nadu, grew up in Mumbai and Delhi and then left for the USA to pursue her dream of becoming a jazz singer. When she discovered that music wasn’t good for keeping body and soul together, she held a variety of day-jobs while singing in clubs at night, sharing the stage with many of New York’s renowned jazz artists. She has been a tour guide in Australia, New Zealand and Fiji, organized trade shows and exhibitions in China, owned and run a boutique on Long Island, and worked for an art publisher in New York.

She returned to India after about twenty years and found work in a publishing company, writing a column called ‘Between the Sexes’, a look at the odd way in which men and women see each other. She used to host a weekly jazz show on Radio Indigo in Bangalore, called, ‘Indigo and Blues.’
She is also a trained Dhrupad singer and currently works for Explocity.com in Bangalore as VP Business Development.

Her band UNK: The Radha Thomas Ensemble has been gaining some traction in the past few years performing all over India. In the summer of 2012, she released her first album as band leader called, ‘I Only Have Eyes For You.’ The album has received excellent reviews but as she says, “It ain’t gonna feed the pigs.”

‘Men On My Mind’ is her first novel in a series of three novels. “Men, that’s a subject that can’t really be exhausted, now can it?” she asks.

To know more about Radha visit http://radhathomas.com/