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Life in India's capital city can be challenging.

Advertising professional Chanchal Sanyal took these challenges and poured them into his book, The Glass House.

To this mix, he added a house-hunting couple whose marriage seems to be facing hurdles and family and societal complications that involve an NRI brother, an annoying landlord and the 'resident bitch' of the college staffroom whom the protagonist finds himself increasingly fascinated by.

The Glass House was launched in Mumbai and Sanyal roped in Naseeruddin Shah to read an excerpt.

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