I too had a love story

Yesterday Vikrant buzzed me, informing about the novel that he read day before yesterday named “I too had a love story”. He told me the book is so good, that he finished it off in one go.

Frankly speaking, i am not a good reader. But he kept telling me the things in that book and i felt i should at least take a look at the book. Especially when Vikrant is saying, it has to be good, is what i believed.

So accordingly i got my copy and browsed through initial pages.

The book claimed itself as a “Heart-breaking true love story”. What interest me more is that it was a debut book of the author. More to that, the author is not a “author” but a software engineer working for infosys. That made me curious. Well i believed then that the book will be simple, sticking to its princinples. This might not be yet another marketing book which says “National best seller” and then nothing much in that.

“not everyone in this world has the fate to cherish the fullest form of love,some r born just to experience the abbreviation of it“, interesting line printed caught my attention and i started reading the book.

This book is about a love story of a guy “Ravinder Singh” and a girl “Khushi”. They found each other on a matrimonial site. They keep talking on cell, just to find out that they are the perfect match for each other. Love flourishes between them, mostly through cell conversations. They don’t see each other in person for as good as 3+ months.

All this thing, the conversation, the mind-sets, everything is so very romantic. This guy get a chance to see his life-mate just for a day before going to USA for official work. They meet, to find out that they are madly in love with each other.

75% of the book is about the romance and 25% is about the tragedy that separates them.

I was going through all sorts of emotions while reading this book. I was smiling, blushing, laughing, tensed, scared and at the end, very close to sobbing. I don’t recollect a single page where i was bored or have skipped the paragraphs. Even-though the book said “heart-breaking”, i was praying that this story of a ‘Shona’ and ‘Shonimoni’ should turn out to be a “perfect happy ending”, but it didn’t.

Last three or four pages were too much for me. I could not read it, felt like my heart is aching with pain. I wanted to close the book and forget it, yet at the same time, wanted to see what is written in it

Later lying on the bed, i could not sleep. I kept thinking about both of them. I could visualize everything that happened right from the beginning. I was cursing human life. It is such a weired thing. There are thousands of souls who are in pain, waiting for the death, yet they are living like hell. And there are few who have so much from life to come and their destiny took them away.

Death might be the end for the person who is died, but, it is just a beginning for the near and dear ones.

I woke up in the morning, still with the thoughts filled with the couple and the story narrated in the book. I am truly convinced that this is the best book i have ever read.

It was over-cast in the morning with a chilled wind. Travelling on my bike, still thinking about the book, i felt tiny water drops dripping from my eyes. I don’t know if it was because of the windy weather or i am really crying in pain just like the author