I’m back! :)

Hello Everyone! Hope you’re all well! 🙂

It’s been a while since I’ve met you. oh! it’s been almost 4 years since I have not posted anything on my blog. A lot has happened these days. Corona shook us, it destroyed us financially, physically, and mentally in fact completely. Many of you must have lost your family members. For that, I want to console you. I am sorry, but it’s a life and we should move on with their memories. We all faced a lot of complications in life. Many relationships broke down during this time. Be it in friendship, love relationships, or any other. They blame us and we blame them for this broken relationship, but you neither they are wrong, nor we are. It is the time that Corona has given us. It’s not about who is wrong or who is right. It’s about who is determined to make things happen and who is unwilling to do that. This is what makes or breaks relations. I would just say that keep calm and try to save your relationship because corona has also taught us what is the importance of a relationship? Please try to save it. Respect people and their feelings. don’t ever take anyone or anything for granted.

During this time, we have already faced a lot, don’t make it more complicated. Try to live again. Try to smile again and please save your relations!

Till then take care, I will meet you soon!
Stay safe! ❤

Paradox of life…!

When you lose someone who is a major part of your entire universe, it hits you. It hits you so hard, it shakes you emotionally and mentally.

And you find yourself distracted and sleepless at 2 a.m. wondering about all the chances you didn’t take, all the things you didn’t say, all the feelings you didn’t share, all the pictures you didn’t click, everything that could have just made both of you a little more of each other’s.

Coz the truth is, back then, you always thought you had forever…forever with him or her….But you don’t. Actually, we never do….

And that’s the paradox of life, feelings last forever….moments and people don’t!

Book Review: IT’S ALL IN THE PLANETS by PREETI SHENOY

Hey Friends! Have you read It’s All In The Planets? Well, I read and I spent literally my entire day reading Preeti Shenoy’s  latest novel, “It’s All in the Planets”.  I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. I simply like Preeti Shenoy a lot, I cannot ever ignore her books. Its amazing, how beautifully she writes her stories. I always excited to read her books, so when I saw that there’s a new book by Preeti Shenoy, I just clicked on Pre-Order button and very soon I got my copy of the book signed by the author 💖 and I was so glad to receive that autographed copy. So I liked the book very much, it is a sweet and simple love story which revolves around 3 main characters Aniket aka Ani, Nidhi and Trisha aka Trish. It is simple tale with full of twists and turns. The title of the book is beautiful and I liked the cover also, its beautiful and romantic…..isn’t it? ✨ for a sec it takes you in to a dreamland. ✨ One thing I love about Shenoy is her stories are always themed around female leads, human relationships and their emotions/feelings. I really like her and love to read her books.

Now about the novel, let’s start with the title. So, the title gives the full justice to the story. I don’t believe in astrology that much but I believe in destiny very much actually, I do believe that everything we think, we want, we do or be in life has root in our Destiny. The narrative of the story is simple and beautiful. Shenoy talks about the modern day relationships and love, and gives a great message that do not compromise ever if you are not happy just say it, take a stand because in any relationship compromises can’t bring happiness to any person so do not compromise, respect your feelings and yourself. The plot revolves around Aniket, Trisha, Nidhi and Manoj. It’s a story of love, friendship, hate, cheating and understanding. And I must say Preeti has brought out all the emotions in it so beautifully. 🙂
I loved the characters of Nidhi and her step mom Tara. Both are nice and understanding. Nidhi, is smart, understanding, intelligent, talented, passionate about her work and full of life. She has quit her corporate job and back to India to pursue her passion for “Pottery and Blogging”. She is engaged to Manoj. She thinks Manoj is just “Mr. Perfect” but later realizes that he is not right person for her and she no longer loves him. Nidhi also maintains a blog called ‘A Pot of Clay That Holds Gold’ in the meantime. She is so passionate about her ambitions. Ambition to her is something other than just money and a profitable career. She’s indeed a very powerful and beautiful character and I loved the way she gets a support from her family. I wish all parents be like that towards their children, especially girls. Tara, Nidhi’s step mom is an absolute sweetheart who encourages her daughter in every step of life and understands her and loves her. I loved her character. Usually we don’t see such a supportive stepmother…right no?

Aniket aka Ani, is a male lead character. He is a techie. He has a girlfriend Trisha. He is just so crazy by the beauty of Trisha and that is something quite common in present day relationships and so called love. 😂 Trisha aka Trish, is a part time model and basically works at Aniket’s office. Ani loves Trish a lot but Trish doesn’t love him. She has a list of things she wants him to work on especially with his pot belly. Aniket can do anything to be with her. He has a best friend Subbu. Subbu is quite funny, nerd and sweet character. He is truly Ani’s best friend. When Ani has any problem, Subbu always cheers him up. He does all his best to make his friend feel better. He’s a true friend who is very supportive. So, one day on a train journey Nidhi meets Aniket by coincidence and Nidhi agrees to be Ani’s relationship as well as fitness coach. They become good friends. They help each other with solving their problems. Things change with time and a lot happens with a major twist which we didn’t thought. So now, we have 4 characters on this romantic plot. Nidhi and Manoj, Trish and Aniket. So what happens next? Well, I’m not going to tell you further story coz I’m not going to spoil the suspense created by the author in the story, you should read the book for that. 😉

Well I found Aniket’s character little annoying at some points but I liked his selfless love for Trish and his efforts to recreate the already-dying-relationship with Trish is just beyond words. I liked the climax. Shenoy uses simple words/ language. The writing and language is really nice which is why anyone can relate with her story. She has written the story so beautifully. I liked it. The story talks of selfrespect, selflove and also following your dreams and passions, which should be respected and accepted.❤️ I loved the way Shenoy expresses these emotions in words.

All in all, I liked  the book. But I didn’t like when some chapters deal with the same incidents being narrated by both Ani and Nidhi. 😕 Apart from that, it is a nice and romantic story with a good twist and a message. And as I said above I believe in destiny so I agree with author’s message that is conveyed in this book that destiny is something which is prewritten and cannot be changed. Everything that has to happen will happen surely in its own pact when the right time arrives. I strongly agree with this.😊

Some quotes from the book-

“The longing for you is now a constant companion I carry in my heart. It surrounds me like a cloak and everything that I see is through this filter. It permeates every cell in my body. There is no waking moment that goes by without you on my mind. And if I could control my dreams when I sleep, I would dream only of you.”

“Yes. We are dealt cards. That is fate. But we do have free will. What we do with the blows that land on us is up to us. We can fight and emerge stronger than before. or we can give up.”

So its a nice read for me. Decent job done by the author, but she could have done better. But I would say read it once at least. Don’t miss it if you like reading Shenoy’s books, but don’t expect too much it is not her best work.

And, Tell me have you read it? I would love to hear it from you. Do let me know if you have read the book or are planning to do so! Do share it with me in the comments below as I would love to know!

Book Review: ONE INDIAN GIRL by CHETAN BHAGAT

Hey! Wassup? 🙂 I’m back with another book review and this time it is Chetan Bhagat’s new book “ONE INDIAN GIRL”. So I’d to read this novel because it is Bhagat’s and it is about an “Indian girl”. I’m always excited to read his works. Unlike many other people I like his writing and I’m always waiting for his next creation. One Indian Girl is the 9th book of Chetan Bhagat. His previous book Half Girlfriend (Review Here) is very well received by his readers and soon releasing as a movie but it couldn’t impress me much. Just like Half Girlfriend, this book too has a catchy title and has a typical filmy story. Honestly I didn’t like the book maybe because except some points, I couldn’t fully relate myself with the main character Radhika Mehta. Well, I just did not like the end, I mean I’m not kidding but for a second I was like “aray, end ho gayi?” 😛 You know Bhagat has this magic, once you start reading his book, I bet you won’t stop reading till the end. I am not saying it is boring because yeah its not that boring. It’s a good book but what I dislike is the charaters and some dialogues and conversations. I felt like I am reading or watching a bollywood script/movie so just to feel the story, I have imagined like I am watching a Bollywood movie and this movie has a boring climax. But its Chetan Bhagat “magic” that the book broke all the pre-order records on amazon.in 😉

Now come to the book, One Indian Girl is a story of a girl who is average looking, not fair, ambitious, well educated and very successful in her career and she just doesn’t like that conservative and typical thinking of Indian society about girls and women. We are introduced to her past lovers and her current fiancé, and the book is about who she ends up with. She is quite feminist and has an opinion on everything. She makes it sure that she does things which she feels is right without worrying about her family or anyone else. The story opens with a destination wedding scene of  Radhika and Brijesh at Goa. It is an arranged marriage. Brijesh Gulati works for Facebook and is very intelligent and sweet. He has a kind soul. Radhika doesn’t want to get married with Brijesh but she has to because her mother wants her to get married soon. The character of  Radhika is very well narrated by Chetan Bhagat. Radhika works at Goldman Sachs New York office. She has a live-in boyfriend there, named Debashish Sen aka Debu. He is smart and intelligent. But, Debu earns much less than Radhika, so he feels insecure and this ultimately creates problems in their relationship and of course they broke up. It all happens in the flashback of One Indian Girl. The story has technically 3 flashbacks 😀 Radhika decides to resign from the job but her boss offer to transfer her to Hong Kong Office. She agrees as that gives her an opportunity to go away from New York where everything reminds her of Debu. In Hong Kong Office she meets Neel Gupta.

Neel Gupta is smart, handsome, fair and and attractive. He is married and has 2 kids. He is 20 year older to Radhika. Neel and Radhika are the partners at the Special Situations Group in the Hong Kong office. They get attracted to each other and have an affair. Very soon Radhika realized that this relationship has no future so they split up. Again history repeats, Radhika resigns and again she is offered a transfer instead of resignation. She happily accepts it and goes to London. This also happens in the flashback, by the way 😀

Now wedding scene arrives. After 3 years, Debu and Neel, both are here in Goa at Radhika’s marriage. Because they suddenly regretting their decision of breaking up with Radhika and now they want to marry her. So now, we have three guys in the end who want to marry Radhika and she has to choose one guy on which her future will depend. Well, I liked the writing style of Bhagat, its not awesome but it is good better than the last one. At some points I was skipping line because I didn’t want to read the whole thought process. It was quite boring. This book intended to tell the world about today’s successful and modern Indian women, their capacity to take decisions and stand up for their own rights, good and feelings, but it failed I mean not nailed, in my opinion it failed to make an impact in the end or convey a strong message or a real thinking of a girl. It doesn’t really reflect how women really think. Except some chapters that were really interesting to read, the rest of it was really boring. It has nothing much apart from work conversations and having meaningless sex on beach and in bedrooms. One thing I don’t understand, why Indian writers resort to sex to sell their books???? Really, its a SHAME! 😦
Well, The writing skill of Bhagat is good. He has narrated all the characters and events nicely. I read somewhere that “Chetan Bhagat is Salman Khan or Shahrukh Khan of Indian English Fiction Writing.” and I agree with it! You simply cannot resist his books even you don’t like him…agree?  😉 I liked the story but I suppose that the end could have been more better.

So, One Indian Girl is a timepass actually. I simply didn’t like it much. But I suggest you to give it a chance. It was a decent attempt by Chetan to describe the feminism through his eyes but trust me I’m not agree with his “point of view” of an Indian girl. However, I want to highlight that One Indian Girl was definitely not a feminist book. As I said above, at few places, Bhagat has just not justified a girl’s point of view correctly which looks quite fake, boring, provoking and attention-seeking.
In fact, at the climax of this novel, I’m actually searching for the reason “why the book was actually written????” but I found nothing 😀 I liked the part when Radhika tells Debu that it is easy for anybody to say that they support feminism or they want to support girls/women but they are not actually different from the mass when it comes to reality. 🙂 The book seems to have been written for cinema only. I think, Bhagat writes books so that it can easily be converted into a screenplay and made into a movie and he just earns money. This novel is really meant for movie and little for from the normal middle class Indian girls. The story keeps engaging you until you finish it off. But its no way related to the real Indian girls story.

Some interesting quotes from One Indian Girl:

“Women lie about their feelings all the time. It’s amazing how easily it comes to us.”

“You only need the light when it is burning low, only miss the sun when it starts to snow.”

“If it is too good to be true, it probably is too good to be true.”

“Some people are good at taking decisions. I am not one of them.”

Overall it is a good book or I would say a good bollywood script. If you like Chetan Bhagat’s work or you’re a fan of bollywood and want to read a filmy script then go for it! 🙂 If a movie ever made on this novel which I think it’ll be soon 😉 so my movie cast for this book would be-

Athiya Shetty as Radhika Mehta,

Aditya Roy Kapoor as Debashish Sen,

 Karan Singh Grover as Neel Gupta, and

Arjun Kapoor as Brijesh Gulati.

Now, Tell me have you read it? I would love to hear it from you. Do let me know if you have read the book or are planning to do so! If yes, how did you like it? Do share it with me in the comments below as I would love to know! 🙂

Book Review- Your Dreams are Mine Now by Ravinder Singh

And I’m back with another book review and this time its Ravinder Singh’s Your Dreams Are Mine Now. I ordered it on flipkart.com and got it on time. Ravinder has written 5 novels till date: ‘I Too had a Love Story’ (My Favorite) , ‘Can Love Happen Twice’, ‘Like It Happened Yesterday’ ,‘Your Dreams are Mine Now’ and his latest work “This Love that Feels Right” and he has also edited ‘Love Stories that touched My Heart’ and “Tell Me a Story”. I have read all the works by Ravinder Singh except “Like it happened yesterday”. His very first novel “I Too Had A Love Story” as a work will always be his best work in my eyes.:-)  I really love that book a lot. It was truly an pure story with pure emotions of a man’s heart. Ravinder Singh is one of my all time favorite writers.

Well, I loved the cover of this book…its so romantic and beautiful, isn’t it? 😉 I was so much excited to read it. I always excited to read Ravinder Singh’s book because somehow I just relate myself to them or the stories. I still remember when I read his first book I Too Had A Love Story, I was totally connected. I could actually feel the pain, love, emotions & all the things that has written in that book. ❤ Maybe that’s why I love Singh’s books. Your Dreams are Mine Now is a beautifully written teenage love story.  Its a fictional tale which draws inspiration from a real life incident Delhi’s Nirbhaya Rape Case that shook the nation by storm a couple of years back. The main characters of this book are Rupali Sinha and Arjun.

Rupali is a young innocent girl from Patna dreams of getting into college she always wanted to join. So she steps on the ground of DU with her dreams. She is different from Delhi girls. She is not a bit fashionable, her simplicity reflects by her dressing sense. She is intelligent, beautiful, smart and a lovely soul. During one of her first days at college she plants a “Tulsi” plant in the campus garden. She wants to see the plant grow as a reflection of the growth of her academic life and herself at DU. At the very moment few guys appear in a jeep, they make fun of her and ask her few questions. She got nervous and scared. One of those guys doesn’t speak much. But he is the one she is most scared of and that’s Arjun the male lead character. He is a guy from Delhi who is very active in DU politics and want to make the world a beautiful place. Rupali and Arjun are completely opposite. As time flies Rupali gets to know the inner delicacies of matters in the campus and with that one campus scandal bring Arjun and Rupali together and they fell in love with each other. As they says opposites attract 😉 They are passionately in love but then what happens to their love story and their political future is the cruel part of the book. The climax of this book is so painful. I cried a lot at the end maybe because whenever I read a book I want to relate myself with the characters and every time it made me cry at some points. 😦

I liked this novel. The characters are well developed. The language is easy, the cover and title is quite interesting. It’s a well written book. The language os this book is so simple and it is really an easy and nice read. But if you are expecting something new or innovative in this tale then sorry! I’m sure you will be disappointed. Yes, it is similar to Nirbhaya’s case after all every novel is inspired by a true story, right?  When you read this book you will think that you just completed reading a summary reports of the incident that happened back then. Most of the pages are seem to copied from newspapers and articles on this case. But anyways, I love 3 things in this novel, one is there were no sex scenes in this book. Apart from some kiss scenes and another romantic conversation part. Thankfully Ravin did not create this awkwardness in the book. Second thing is the love confession of Rupali in the simplest way and Arjun’s emotions conveyed through the line ‘Your dreams are mine now’ and the New Year Eve’s love pendant incident and their conversation, oh that beautiful part! 🙂 ❤

Some interesting quotes:

1. “Stand for what is right and do not let evil persist.”

2. “The present! It’s so different from the past. The past! It will never come back. Never ever!”

3. “Betrayal hurts the most when it comes from the one who you always remembered in your prayers.”

4. “Sometimes the problem with silence is that the more it continues to prevail, the more awkward it becomes.”

5. When dreams take shape, sleep runs away.”

6. “Being brave doesn’t mean the lack of fear.It means overcoming your fears.

All in all it’s a nice read. I love the way Ravinder writes his novel. Your Dreams are Mine Now will make you cry, laugh and happy. Some pages of the book seems boring but the suspense makes you engross to read the entire book. The beautiful love story of Arjun and Rupali will touch your heart. It’s a lovely book and I enjoyed it with my “Britannia little hearts biscuits” 😛 I love these biscuits 😀 It really reminds me of my childhood 🙂

Well, This story touched my heart and shook my soul and I hope it does the same for you too when you’ll read it. I did not like the end. As I mentioned the end left me in tears, I personally think the character of Rupali shouldn’t have died not at least like this. It was so upsetting. Its a good story but it could be an excellent one if in the end both lovers were united. But I guess everyone should read it once, it’s a well written book. So don’t think much just go for it! 😉

Infinite Truth

Behind every rude, arrogant guy/girl whom you call impolite, is his/her broken heart and a story that changed his/her attitude towards life!

Love!

LOVE 🙂 the most beautiful Word and Feeling in the world. 🙂 Do you know the meaning of Love? Do you guys believe in Love??? Well, I think the biggest problem with people and love nowadays is that some people are so desperate for love that they are even ready to settle for false relationships. I really think that Forced feelings, Mixed emotions and Wrong decisions are taken when people see the least bit of satisfaction of their desire to find love and I guess this is one of the major reasons why relationships fail nowadays.

I am being a little philosophical here but yes, these days its easier to say the other person “I Love You” than to explain them the importance of this word in your life.” I love you’s are casual, intensities do not exist and people don’t even know what they are getting into when they say they are in love. It’s sad and sometimes funny but unfortunately TRUE!

And this happens not because our hearts are ready to fall in love but because our minds are convinced of wanting something so badly that we’ll settle for a false image of it when we’re lonely. People need to understand that these 3 magical words (I Love You) are so important and saying I love you is not wrong but the sanctity of that feeling called love is almost over 😦 now its just a status to be with someone all the time…I mean, How Cheap! No one do understand that being with their oneself is much more important than being with fake person. I think we all need to learn this before we say we are in love!

You know, if you are not happy being single, you will never be happy in a fake relationship. We need to understand that “Being single is much wiser than being in a fake relationship.” Love is not a joke, drama or game…Its a feeling, it is more than words, respect it…respect your love, your life and yourself. That’s all!!!

Just stay happy guys, and DON’T FORGET TO LOVE YOURSELF FIRST!!! 🙂

Talking to myself…

Truth be told, since childhood I’ve always been someone who looks Too Deep into something or someone. It’s just an instinct, a certain curiosity to look beyond what you see on the surface….and maybe this is because I learnt it quite early in life that there’s always something more than what meets the eye. 🙂

And then sometimes, I wonder what people see when they look at me. *Sigh* 🙂

And….. I’m Just Like That!

Hello Lovely Friends 🙂 Its been a long longggg time since I’ve posted anything. One thing I have to say that I missed you all…I really missed all my readers 🙂 WordPress is actually a part of my life now and you all are my WordPress Family! (Big Heart)

So it’s raining here. I don’t know why but I just love the rain❤️ Yes! I love every season. But this season is amazing. I love the rain a lot. I love the weather when its about to rain. The beautiful smell of the mud after a little pouring, its a romantic weather you know. Sitting by the window, having my hot coffee, reading a good novel or going for a long drive, I just love to do all that about the rain 🙂 yes, I  do wanna travel around the world….and thats all I wanna do, it’s just not my fantasy but its my big dream 🙂  I just don’t want anything and its totally okay if no one is with me, all I want is just take a backpack and roam around the globe. Go to a place, do an amazing job, earn some money, go to another place, do another good job. Oh yes! I know, I am a dreamer. And maybe, I dream about the things I know won’t come true in a million years.

You know, I am a big foodie. 😋 Like almost every Indian I also LOVE FOOD 😉 I love to eat, I don’t like cooking much but I use to cook sometimes, I just love food. When I want to eat something and my heart says NO then I’m like lil conscious…but then I am like….”Oh C’mon!, let it be…I am going to eat.” And I think, this is my biggest problem. 😜 but I believe that life is too short to give a damn about what others think and I honestly don’t care about others. So maybe that’s why, I eat a lot and all I can do is EAT 😜 I really don;t care what people think about me all I know is…I’m just like that and I love myself! 🙂

Is self love important? Yes! it is….

You know you have come so far when you look back and smile about what you have achieved. But at the same times, tears are there for what you have lost during the process. That’s life for you, you are happy, sad and what not but accomplishment is that you live it without any hesitation. 🙂

Fall in love, irrespective of the fact that whether the other person would feel the same or not. I always write about love (even though my own love life is non – existing 😛 ), because it is the very basic need (ofcourse, after Roti, Kapda and Makaan 😀 ) we human have.

People fall in love, then come out of it and fall again. Love doesn’t have to be permanent, you can fall out of it but what’s important is what you feel is true. We love different people in different ways, we all do right? Fall in that Ishq Wala Love too, people often fall in love but have no guts to tell their partners the same. But for me, what’s important is that along with loving your partner you should love yourself too. Everyone of you is going to fall for someone someday, and for that day please remember that the one you fall for can love you back or they may not, what you need to know is that you’re important too. I often noticed that, people becomes so choosy in a relationship, which leads them to break their relationship, people lose respect for each other, becomes irritated…if you too face or faced the same problem, I’m telling you don’t worry if you happen to let go of someone, let them go forever. Always remember that self love is very important, if he/she doesn’t respect you, he/she doesn’t deserve you. You should first love yourself.

Loving yourself is far more important than any other thing, no I’m not talking about the Self Obsession, but at least letting yourself being the priority once in a while. That’s more important than anything 🙂 We should fall in love with ourselves before falling in love with others….nobody can give you more love than yourself but yeah this is also true that sometimes people can love you more than what you do, but remember only SOME TIMES not EVERY TIME 😉

So have a great time friends 🙂
fall in love, spread love but first Love Yourself! ❤