After reading all those overwhelming reviews about  the book all over the net, finally I’ve decided to buy Bombay Rains and Bombay Girls by Anirban Bose. After placing order through online store I’ve received the 450 odd pages of bulky book. which itself is discouraging to go through.

After learning that the author is a doctor and foreign returned (Like Chetan Bhagat), immediate response in my mind is that this book will suck. Controlling my negative feelings I’ve started reading the book. The first few pages really suck. Like these doctors prescription cannot be understood by anyone, the book contains all those greeky terminologies, words, complex sentences which required a dictionary to understand. I though he is showing off all his worldly English knowledge through this book.

But I continued reading (Because I’ve bought the book). Soon Anirban proved me wrong. As the story progressed and got the grip over the characters and story, the greeky words didn’t bother much in the flow of story and understanding it.

Like he stated in the acknowledgement, he really does have the skill to tell stories and even make it interesting. The story progress slowly without much excitements till climax. May be at that point the author realized that he has written lots of pages without coming to an end and publishers may refuse to publish it. So he hurriedly written the climax part with lots of events, turning points, excitements like any other bollywood movie. 

But what’s more interesting and attracted me is, the way Adi the lead character learns things through the experience. Every one come across lot of experiences in their life. But very few learn lessons from it, grow mature and adopt, make use of those learning's in their real life. The letters to female lead character Isha reveals how sensitive he is to the surroundings, his environment and people around.

If you can ignore the small mistakes, that is obvious for the first time writer, you can really enjoy the book. Definitely Bombay rains, Bombay girls is not just a light read. Go grab Buy Bombay Rains Bombay Girls from Flipkart.com and enjoy reading it.  They have a special discount for the book and also ships all over India. Many payment options including Cash on Delivery is available.

• Book Title : Nothing Can be as crazy…
• Author : Ajay Mohan Jain
• Publisher : Rupa & Co.
• Price : Rs. 95

Summery :

This book is about a guy called suresh a typical Indian service class man. His narration of part of his life as a banker. How he struggles in one of the banks as an officer. The typical office politics etc.

Review :

The story takes place in 70s and 80s. The story is narrated in a dairy style. Most of the description of the places and events makes you feel as you are reading a private dairy of the leading role. Except for few lengthy description of the places and it’s description, this book has a good story within.

The book also takes you the work environment in 70s and 80s. Specially the banking sector is portrayed as the leading character of this story is a bank employee. You also come across to learn about the life and lifestyles of some of the major cities of the country. The cities like Kolkata, Hyderabad etc. is described. It also portrays the lifestyle of yester year youths and their ambitions.

Over all the book is a light read, as this is the debut novel of the author may be he chose the light subject.

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In one one sentence I can say Off Course I Love you is for lite read. No Philosophy, No Message, bit complicated though. It’s a debut of Durjoy Datta and Maanvi Ahuja. So for a debutant standards it’s a cool book. (Though I am eager to compare it with Chetan Bhagat, I’m avoiding it).

The whole story runs on the grounds of Delhi Hi-fi society. So reaching to masses is doubtful. The Small town guys find this bit difficult to digest and accept the metro hi-fi youth culture on which the story is based on.

If you can go through the first few episodes and bit lengthy pre-climax episodes, it’s definitely a good read.  The climax is ultimate with all kind of cinematic twists and perfect.

Overall for the debutants it’s a good start. They have done a good job (Ignoring the few minor issues). Hope they correct these issues in their future books.  They have lot of potential to improve and grow.

See what this Chetan Bhagat did to Indian youths. Whether his stories inspired the youth in right way or not but many young professionals across the country turned English authors by night. Some of them even the best sellers! Ok any how it’s a good scenario to see young people not just reading but also writing. We got some variety, new and relevant fictions to read.

Chetan’s 4 Books till date Five Point Someone, One Night at the call center, 3 Mistakes of my life, 2 states all are based on college life. (Observe all these books start with a number in their titles) These books reminded today's youth about their college life, love stories and inspired them to write a book. Earlier writing a book was not such simple one. Many think that you have to be a scholar or at least a student of literature and have lot of life experience to write books. But now anyone can write books. Even the success of chetan bhagath’s books inspired publisher’s to believe in today’s youths and their simple stories.  

So while browsing for some light, cool reads I came across some books which are almost in line with chetan’s books, light on story, light on pockets too.  So I’ve purchased 5 books to read. A Romance with a chaos by Nishanth Kaushik, Nothing can be as crazy by Ajay Mohan Jain, Love, a rather bad idea by Anirban Mukherjee, Of Course I love you by Durjoy Datta and Maanvi Ahuja, I too had a love a story by Ravinder Singh. All these books cost me only around 350 bucks purchased online.

Let me see how many of these authors and their books stand the expectations. Soon I’ll publish the reviews here. Watch this space. Flipkart which provides an online book shopping service ships the books for free within India(Orders more than Rs.100/-). The Books will be delivered within 4-5 Business Days.