Aiyyo, What Will the Neighbours Say?
When Ordinary Life Turns Extraordinarily Funny!
If you’ve ever found yourself trapped in a family WhatsApp group debate about the afterlife, been part of a tour group that made you reconsider your life choices, or seen your parents discovering Instagram filters, Aiyyo, What Will the Neighbours Say? is the book you didn’t know you needed.
Aruna Nambiar, the queen of tongue-in-cheek storytelling, is back, and this time, she’s serving thirteen stories that are as hilariously relatable as they are deeply insightful. Everyday moments—an argument, a bad mood, a forgotten toy—become deliciously absurd and unexpectedly moving in her hands. With her signature humour and razor-sharp observation, Nambiar dissects the drama of middle-class India with warmth, wit, and a twinkle in her eye.
The book takes you from living rooms to travel tours, from social media misadventures to nostalgic rediscoveries—where the people are nosy, the emotions are messy, and the outcomes are delightfully unpredictable. Each story ends with a clever twist, sometimes leaving you giggling, sometimes sighing, and always thinking, “Oh no, this could totally happen to me!”
And just when you’re convinced you’ve moved on from one story, a familiar character pops up in another—like that neighbour you can’t seem to escape—binding the collection together in a witty web of human follies and affections.
A former banker turned chronicler of Indian quirks, Aruna Nambiar is no stranger to the art of observation. After her hit novels Mango Cheeks, Metal Teeth, The Monsters Still Lurk, and The Weird Women’s Club, she brings her signature comic precision and affectionate satire to short fiction for the first time.
So, brace for Aiyyo, What Will the Neighbours Say? Read it with your evening filter coffee or your midnight cup of chai—and prepare to laugh, cringe, nod in recognition, and perhaps, glance nervously at your own WhatsApp chats.
Because let’s face it—if Aruna Nambiar’s stories have taught us anything, it’s that behind every respectable curtain and curated selfie lies a tale waiting to go spectacularly, hilariously wrong.
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About the Author
In a previous life, Aruna Nambiar was a student of engineering and management, and a banker. Now an author and editor based in Bangalore, she writes tongue-in-cheek novels about life, relationships and the idiosyncrasies of Indian society. She is the author of three novels, The Weird Women’s Club, The Monsters Still Lurk and Mango Cheeks, Metal Teeth. Aiyyo, What Will the Neighbours Say? is her first collection of short stories.
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