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Dosti, Love, Aur The Bond from the Beginning Pages: 148 Author: Sima Patel Publisher: Rowanvale Books           ‘Dosti, Love, Aur The Bond from the Beginning’ by Sima Patel as the name suggests is a story about friendship between six students (Bradley, Arjun, Kyle, Sareena, Karen, and Jasmine) and how the friendship turns into love at first sight for Sareena. Sareena is an Indian girl living in America and at first she just wanted to earn a degree so that she could have a successful career. Love for her was a trivial matter and would come later in life but life had other plans for her and love becomes her topmost priority when she meets Bradley. But her father too has other plans for her. Her father ‘Mr. Mehta’ is an old fashioned man who has already decided that her daughter would get married at a young age and that with a boy of his choice and he was against the idea of Sareena going for further studies. But her brother...

Letters from Heaven Author: Surabhi Sharma Pages: 32                 ‘Letters from Heaven’ by Surabhi Sharma is a short story about Radhika who is grieving over her husband’s loss. They were two souls that beat as one and when Radhika lost her husband who was suffering from cancer she just couldn’t come out of it. Her daughter is trying to get her involved in other things but nothing seems to work. Then all of a sudden she starts receiving letters from someone but the person has not mentioned his identity so she opens the letter and to her surprise it is from her husband! She is completely confused as to who can play such a joke on her. Who is sending her these letters in the name of her husband? Will Radhika ever get over her husband’s loss? To know more read Letters from Heaven. My Views:                 I loved a...

The Death Wish Author: Sourabh Mukherjee Pages: 21 Format: Ebook                 ‘The Death Wish’ by Sourabh Mukherjee is a very sensitive tale. In this book we get to see the social problems that today’s generations are not much concerned about. Today children find their parents as burden and then the trouble of making them (parents) feel as if they are some unwanted person in the house and then too when we can’t rid of them we ignore them. There was a time when our parents looked after us and our needs but now when they need us we cannot give them the same love in return and our parents become the loneliest person which may further complicate the situation and make the person depressed or suicidal.                 The story revolves around Abani who has struggled all through his life. While growing up under the negl...

The Hunt Format: ebook Author: Sourabh Mukherjee Pages: 11                                   “The Hunt” by Sourabh Mukherjee is a short but engaging tale of a person who comes back after 15 years to avenge the person who took away all the happiness from his family. The protagonist is following Dibakar Roy for the past one month and he plots the plan and is waiting for the right time to take his revenge. Why does he want to kill an old man? What exactly happened 15 years back due to which our protagonist is keen on taking revenge? To know the answer to these read TheHunt.                 The title of the book is very apt to the book and would surely rise the curiosity of the readers as to who is hunting and who’s going to be hunted? T...