https://rossmoor-hcc.com/events Rossmoor History & Culture Club upcoming events Rossmoor History &amp; Culture Club Wild Apricot - membership management software and more en Mon, 20 Apr 2026 02:59:58 GMT Mon, 20 Apr 2026 02:59:58 GMT Tue, 01 Sep 2026 17:00:00 GMT <blockquote> <p align="center"><font face="Helvetica Neue" color="#9E0B0F" style="font-size: 24px;"><strong>SPEAKER: Alka Joshi, International<br> Best Selling Novelist</strong></font></p> </blockquote><img src="https://rossmoor-hcc.com/resources/Pictures/joshi2.png" alt="" title="" border="3" align="left" style="border-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin: 8px;" width="173" height="116"> <p style="line-height: 24px;"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14px;"><font color="#000000">Alka Joshi weaves stories of India with traditional life, the arts and the power of travel and fragrance to seduce, tease and entice - as do her characters. They face the pivoting culture of 1950s India and Europe while the British live in the shadows of change and their strained awarene</font><font><font color="#000000">ss. Tales of&nbsp;</font><span style="">valiant strength, and characters that become friends, deliver a glimpse of India’s magic.</span></font></font></p> <p style="line-height: 24px;"><font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14px;">The Henna Artist was devoured by many book clubs including Reese Witherspoon’s. It has been translated into more than 20 languages and is being made into a Netflix series starring Freida Pinto. Readers have avidly consumed Joshi’s subsequent books.</font></p> <p style="line-height: 24px;"><img src="https://rossmoor-hcc.com/resources/Pictures/joshi1.png" alt="" title="" border="3" align="right" width="167" height="95" style="margin: 8px; border-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"></p> <p style="line-height: 24px;"><font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14px;">Alka Joshi received a BA from Stanford University and an MFA from the California College of the Arts. A former advertising copywriter and marketing consultant, Alka was born in the Indian state of Rajasthan and came to the US as a child. She breathes life into her charact</font><span style=""><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14px;">ers from the Monterey peninsula.</font></span></p> https://rossmoor-hcc.com/event-6421003 https://rossmoor-hcc.com/event-6421003