Books by Satinder Kaur Chohan

Lotus Beauty follows the intertwined lives of five multigenerational women, inviting us into Reita's salon where clients can wax lyrical about their day's tiny successes or have their struggles massaged, plucked or tweezed away. But with honest truths and sharp-witted barbs high among the treatments on offer, will the power of community be enough to raise the spirits of everyone who passes through the salon doors?

In dusty, time-warped Indian villages, the last camels plough the land, last charkhas spin and last handlooms weave. The global ¿outside¿ pushes in via Western culture, technology, huge land and agro-chemical contracts and the desire for a ¿number 2¿ illegal route abroad.Zameen (Land) is set in the cotton fields of Punjab, India. Baba, an ageing Sikh cotton farmer, toils away in his fields, struggling against the vagaries of nature and the modern world. His dutiful daughter Chandni dreams of escaping her fate. Her wastrel brother Dhani dreams of ¿Amrikä. When the moneylender Lal¿s son Suraj returns from the outside world, Chandni and Dhani reflect on faded lives and aspirations and reach for ¿phoren¿ dreams. A final reckoning on Babäs land draws out truths, forcing the family to the brink of collapse, in a world changing fast and losing its values.Rooted in Punjabi farming and folk culture, ancestral land and soil, Zameen was written before mass Indian farmer protests against the increasing corporatisation of agriculture, rising farmer suicides and decimation of small farmers. Facing a climate change catastrophe, Zameen captures a world in transition, as nature, tradition and globalisation violently collide around small village lives ¿ lives steeped in a history of toil, struggle ¿ and resilience.

A new play for young people by Satinder Chohan commissioned as part of a pioneering collaboration between Tamasha and the Centre for Family Research (CFR) at University of Cambridge. "...do you know how hard it is To look in the mirror each day See a stranger in your face?" Areia grows up with a thousand unanswered questions. "Where did I get my eyes? My wavy hair? My scholarly air?" When she finally discovers the truth to her burning questions she embarks on a life-changing trip to find out who she really is. Will she become whole and fix her broken heart? And is family really more than genetics and blood?

"In a surrogacy clinic in Gujarat, three women meet. It's Londoner Eva's last chance for motherhood. For village girl Aditi, surrogacy is a lifeline out of poverty."--Publisher website.