Upon receipt of Sanjeev
Ranjan’s debut book from Amazon, my spouse asked ‘what is the real meaning of this title?’. Her question is quite natural, because ladies are constantly
interested in true love either from
her husband, parents, sibling or boyfriend. I modestly replied her “I can’t tell until I read the book”
Aarush, a boy from a
middle class family at Siwan (Bihar) got 90.8 % in his 10th board exam.
In the beginning, onboard the bus from Bokaro to Siwan (his return trip after
study); Arush’s memories has been going back to school days. Arush feel that his mother not loving him
much because every time she degrades him and still after exam result, she says
the percentage is ‘less than we hoped’. After exam he is going to Chinmaya
Vidyalaya, Bokaro and the entire plot is occur in his plus two days.
Book is staring at the
end point, means the entire story is mere a flashback.
After joining Chinmaya
Vidyalaya, Aarush meet Aachankya, the
most beautiful girl in his class (may be in school as well). Even though Aarush
is handsome and brilliant student, he is very shy and reluctant to meet and
talk with girls. His style has attracted Aachankya and she is trying to woo
him. Finally, Aarush fall in love with her and their love getting strong and hard-day
at school and night over phone.
Then, most of the story
is happening over mobile and telephone conversation. This makes reader little bit suffocation
sometime. Some faces like parents of both lovers, their kith and kin etc. are
coming and going in-between but not have any major role in the plot.
Their love affair grows
at school and hostel. Aachankya’s hide and seek play with parents to contact her
lover over phone, going to café, chatting and expressing ‘I love you’, missing
in college holidays, usual contentions in between etc. making strong relation
between the two.
But one day, things will
change; drastically change and it bring the reader to stick with the pages of the
book until the end.
The story ends at the
same point it start ‘ …… I am left with
nothing !’.
You can read this book
like a short story. Writer is only
depicting the love of a boy and girl in their college days and later the pain
of broken love. The major negative I felt is writer is concentrating the love
of Aarush and Aachankya but not other stuffs. Some chapters are simply mobile
conversations and the feelings of both lovers.
If you are going for a
travel, I suggest this book to read on your journey. Just readings for time
pass or like watching a movie or love scene in a movie.
It may be interesting to
youth, because I believe most of the incidents depicting in this book are part
of writer’s life itself. The attraction of this book is the modest style of
writing. Writer is expressing his feelings in a simple manner without any
linguistic acrobatics. Unlike other love stories; there is no villain here,
villain and hero are both lovers.
Now after conclusion of
my reading, I can tell my spouse the epitome of this book with a slight change
in its title itself - In Course of True Reading….
I am left with nothing!
As a debut book of a
growing writer, Sanjeev Ranjan’s attempt not disappointing his readers.
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