The book is about a young eighteen years girl Ankita during 1990s in india, who is soon about to join the college, she is from kerla south India and she wants to go to new delhi and join IIT like her school friend abhi, but her parents are against her decision and want her to pursue her college in Kerla itself. So she has no other option than to accept her parents decision and join some good college in her own city. She belongs to an Indian strict and traditional family back in 1990s which talking to boys was not such a good thing to do for girls, and also no phone or internet were available at that times only land line phones were in some houses, ankita's parents also owned a land line telephone. She wants to keep in contact with her friend abhi but talking to telephone is a challenging task to do in front of her parents so she and abhi manage to stay in touch by their letters, keep writing and sending each other letters about every single events that occurs in their daily.
According to her parents will she joins will she joins a college in her city, in college she preforms really well and truly thrives, during college she gets a lot of achievements, she becomes art secretary of her college in second year itself, wins the biggest inter college competition and gets to and and MBA at of india's best Management college.
During those inter college festivals which she is a member in organizing comity, she meets a guy from another college called vibhav. He is also a member of organizing comity from his own college and during inter college festivals they work together days and even late nights, vibhav falls in love with her during their bachelor journey and confesses his love towards her by writing a crazy love letter with his blood. Ankita also likes him but she feels like betraying and cheating abhi. later they get a litter closer and kiss each other one time, on the heat of the events sending letters to abhi decreases and the affection which they used to have does't exist anymore.
College is bout to finish, so ankita tries to get admission in MBA and for that she studies really hard and successfully passes the admission exam, and gets admission in IIM banglore but unlike her vibhav could not get to IIM, instead he gets to an average indian college for his master's. vibhav tries to convince her to stay and pursue MBA together in this very city but she denies , in the same time her father gets promoted in his office and shifts to mumbai, it is an amazing moment for the whole family to settle in mumbai. Vibhav calls anikta and meets her and begs her to not to leave and it seems to nothing can turn ankita from her decision of pursuing her goal. in the same night vibha dies in drunken state and she thinks she is responsible for her death, this thing effects her to a very depth which later brings a world to sorrow and disappointment to her.
So they settled to Mumbai and ankita performs really well during early days of college, she finds some good and new friends in MBA college, she studies really hard more than necessary. During this time she develops the habit of jogging every morning she stays late nights but yet she wakes up really early in the morning and goes for jogging, she becomes really thing because of all these activities.
This time she seems to be not satisfied with anything she starves for new thing to keep herself busy to not to think about vibhav. and when she does she feels an extreme pain inside , she tries killing herself multiple times , she stops going to college and ultimately she drops out of college. Hers parents show her to different psychologists in mumbai but nothing seems to works finally they get to know about some mental health hospital in banglore and they admit her there. In mental hospital her doctor turns out to be the best in country and she opens up everything to him , she develops a very strong bond with her doctor and other patience in hospital, she fights really hard to get better. she wants to recover to her original self, she experiences the toughest times of her life during these months, finally she gets better and better with the help of her doctor and she leaves hospital but she doesn't want to rejoin MBA college instead she takes some courses in creative writing to become a writer to help other people...
This a story about life, courage
I finished this book just in a day, I did enjoy it a lot, it was really easy to read.
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