Tales from the Tail End: My Cancer Diary

by Ananya Mukherjee

Overview

‘When I was first diagnosed with Stage One of an aggressive type of breast cancer, I was stunned and disappointed in myself but quickly found my resolve. I chose to fight cheerfully? A day of life is still life.’Cancer finally claimed Ananya Mukherjee, but she remained her own person—inimitable, indomitable—to her last day; refusing to be crushed, even as she remained clear-eyed about the limits of hope and medicine. And she left behind a host of memories for those who knew her, and a beautiful, unusual legacy for the world—a moving and inspiring diary of her ‘cheerful fight’.Armed with humour, Ananya makes light of the darker moments of cancer (comparing her balding head to the dishevelled crow on her windowsill); gives practical advice on gifts to bring a cancer patient (piping hot machcher jhol along with a good story or two); and tells us what a cancer patient on morphine tablets might dream of (cycling in a yellow meadow as huge as the universe).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789388874946
Publisher:	Speaking Tiger
Publication date:	08/20/2019
Pages:	104
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 7.87(h) x (d)

About the Author

Ananya Mukherjee spent her childhood in Nagpur and Delhi, where she went to college. She did her Masters in Mass Communication from Symbiosis College, Pune, and was a batch topper. She went on to get her Masters in Journalism from the University of Wollongong, Australia. In her professional career of seventeen years, she worked with several reputed PR agencies and corporate houses, including Corporate Voice, Good Relations, Ingersoll Rand and the Dalmia Bharat Group.