In her bestselling novel after taste (over 5000 hardback copies sold), namita devidayal provides a captivating account of a baniya family settled in punjab headed by amatriarch, mummyji, who is in hospital after a stroke. The todarmal family, glued together by money not love, includes the weak and emasculated rajan papa who is desperately in need of cash;sunny, the dynamic head of the business with an ugly marriage and a demanding mistress; suman,the spoilt and greedy beauty of the family who is determined to get her hands on mummyji's bestjewels; and saroj, suman's unlucky sister, who has always lived in her shadow. Each one of themwants mummyji to die.