Book Review: Tara- The Dream Chaser by Nelofar Currimbhoy
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Team Kitaab reviews Tara- The Dream Chaser by Nelofar Currimbhoy (Rupa Publications, 2025), calling it a haunting melody of resilience, desire, and the dream of freedom.
Some stories whisper to us, while others linger like perfume in the folds of memory. Nelofar Currimbhoy’s Tara: The Dream Chaser does both. It is at once a portrait of privilege and pain, of yearning wrapped in silk, and of a woman learning to breathe within the labyrinth of her own making. Beneath its gleaming surface, this is a story about the quiet violence of control and the courage it takes to choose oneself.
Tara, the novel’s eponymous heroine, is a princess by birth but not by fortune. Born into Rajput royalty, she inherits both the splendour and the suffocation of lineage. Her childhood, steeped in ritual and restraint, becomes a study in loneliness. Her father, distant and neglectful, withdraws into the aloof dignity of a man who sees his daughter as an ornament rather than a person; her mother, commanding and calculating, treats Tara as an extension of her own will. The result is a girl who grows up surrounded by beauty but starved of tenderness.
