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By Manash Jyoti Barua

This is the story of Sumit, from his college life in Istanbul to his work life in Mumbai where meeting various people on the journey changes his perception of life, love and death

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2 Reviews | 100 pages | 2 years ago | Draft 1

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This is the story of Sumit, an assistant professor of philosophy, who decides to pen down a novel and during the course of the journey he revisits some events of his life, only to discover that while he remained in the past , the whole world has moved on. This revelation propels him to take a step ahead and decides to give life a second chance, which interestingly also happens to be the main character's journey in his novel, blurring fact and fiction.

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There is an English language barrier in the prose although I'm sure as the drafts get rewritten, this will get better. My real focus in this review was on the big picture issues that stem around the death of Sumit's mother and father. The suffering he endured during his mother's death sent him on a path of detaching himself emotionally from his loved ones, a shield of sorts, to protect him from feeling that way ever again. The father's death will...

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Damian R

I did not like the story. Needs work.

Too many characters that are not part of the story. You keep intruding characters that come and go. To make the script into a movie with so many characters get expensive.
I stopped reading because of the gay characters.
I would have walked out of a theater if I was watching the two gay characters talk about coming out.

I not interested in a gay love story. As a guy who has been hit on by other gay men I so turned off by the story. I think...

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