Of Aakash and Aarati | Book Review

Of Aakash and Aarti

Author: Dr. Govind Sharma IAS

Pages: 204

Publisher: Notion Press

‘Of Aakash and Aarati’ by Govind Sharma is a book about Aakash and Aarati where we get to see the turmoils of adolescent and how children can get into wrong things if parents don’t get involved in their children and try to be active in their children’s life and getting to know their children. Aakash a young boy is currently going through this turmoil where he has lost his mother at a very young age and had a troubled childhood where he has a feeling of worthlessness. To cope with this worthlessness he finds his own way of coping which leads him to drugs where he leads him to wrong company where he even gets addicted to betting. With constant bunking from the school he gets expelled and he is sent to his grandfather at Rajapur. But Aakash being Aakash finds it difficult to stay away from drugs, betting and bunking school he gets a warning from his professor to not bunk his college further and that he is being left only because his grandfather is a mahant. Further, being from Mumbai the girls from his college have a perception that he is the coolest guy in the college and are interested in him. He meets Aarti an enthusiastic, beautiful young girl who also happens to be the sports captain of her school. He starts dating her and also tries to prove her that he’s straight but things turn upside down. Instead of getting out of the dreadful situation he is in he gets more involved in the vicious circle of drugs. Aarti is trying all her best to help him but due to addiction he just can’t get out of it. Will he be able to come out of this vicious circle and lead a meaningful life? To know more read ‘Of Aakashand Aarti’.

My Opinion:

Loved the writing style of the author. The book is written in a lucid manner and is very well researched. We get to see the true plight of the drug addicts and how they turn to drugs because they feel that they are worthless or trying to get out of some sadness and in a way try to cope with the help of drugs. The main objective is to show the readers how drugs is making life complicated and getting out of this habit is very difficult as there are some elements in our society who don’t want such people to get out of this and try to involve them more into drugs. But instead of giving up on drug addicts we must continue our fight against drugs and try to remove our youths from this vicious circle.

The book would keep the readers engaged throughout the book and would make the readers want to know what is going to happen ahead. The book takes a very expansive look at the topic and also shows us the counter measure that we have for drug addicts. The author has also brought to our notice that parents should take more interest in their children especially during adolescent and be friends to them so that they don’t feel neglected and can share their true feelings with them. The author has also discussed the poor choices we make for ourselves when we say yes to drugs and also the policies that the government.

The book is very informative and we get to see that the answer to all the questions we have in our mind about drugs is that we can opt to other methods and one should ask oneself when getting into such unethical practices. And the best option is to learn to say ‘NO TO DRUGS’.

I would recommend this book to everyone who’s looking to read a book wherein the plight of the drug addict is discussed and one would ponder over the drug racket and how these people involve poor and  young children into this bad habit. This was a informative book which I feel everybody should read.

My Rating: 5/5

This book was sent to me by the author in exchange of my honest views.