‘This riveting rags-to-riches story will fascinate readers as it spotlights the changing realities of the New India through powerful characters, exciting storytelling, suspenseful plot-twists and an insightful depiction of privilege and its costs. A great debut!’
–Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

‘In a city like Delhi, people of every class and creed work and live alongside one another, their lives overlapping but never truly meeting. Shivani Sibal delves into this complex intermingling through the stories of Rajesh and Aahan, whose lives are worlds apart and tightly intertwined. A story of class, power, and the shifting dynamics of modern India, Equations is an empathetic and multi-layered novel.’
– Shashi Tharoor

‘Equations tackles several contemporary and complex dynamics within multi-layered Indian families with elan! It left me pretty breathless as I tried to keep up with the many surprising twists in the family saga, that tackles class and caste, politics and prejudice with sharp observations and terrific insights!’
–Shobhaa De

‘Shivani Sibal's Equations portrays, with power and precision, worlds that exist next door to each other and are yet impossibly apart. Inhabited by men and women, parents and children, friends and lovers, each one fractured – and healed – by the irreversible forces of change. In her remarkably perceptive debut, Sibal shows how social mobility in today's India isn't just about aspiration, it's also shedding history to forge a future.
–Raj Kamal Jha

‘Incisive and elegant, Equations holds up an unsparing mirror firmly to all the Indias we know -- the India from our childhood to the India we live in, where ambition and privilege collide in the rarefied atmosphere of Lutyens Delhi, resulting in an upheaval of all we held true about ourselves and those around us. A fabulous debut.’
–Kiran Manral

‘A sparkling debut that ensconces the connubial trials of forgotten India.’
–Meghna Pant