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Rambling with Rukka, a co-authored book of memoirs written by a mother and daughter, traversesroughly eight decades in the life of Rukmini Srinivas, from her childhood in pre-IndependenceIndia in the 1930s to the present day.Rukka’s father, an accountant with the Southern Command, moved around India and the familyexperienced first-hand the diversity and variety in India’s regions and cultures. The book meandersfrom Poona and stories about Rukka’s childhood, her mother’s cooking and kitchen garden, toRukka’s life in Delhi with her husband—the renowned social anthropologist M.N. Srinivas, herexperiences of juggling family and career, and the family’s fateful migration to Bangalore in the1970s before it became known as a tech city. Engaging anecdotes, richly descriptive and by turnspoignant, surprising, hilarious, always honest and human, bring people and places alive and takethe reader on a delightful journey.