Showing results by author "Durjoy Datta"

A virus has wiped out the entire world’s population. Two survivors in Delhi - a boy named Amartya and a girl named Erika - are left to fend for themselves. When they first meet, it seems like this love was meant to be. However, there’s more to their chance encounter than meets the eye. They are both hiding secrets, and one of these secrets might be too much for this relationship to bear. Their survival may hold the key to the future of humanity, but what does their own future hold?   

Aisha is a precocious 17-year-old who idolizes her mother and wishes to have a better relationship with her older brother. Twenty-three-year-old Danish has never been able to do anything that would make his parents proud, living as he is in the shadow of his genius younger brother. Aisha and Danish’s paths were never meant to cross, but fate usually has a way of bringing unlikely people together, sometimes through the most unfortunate means.

For Abhijeet, Saurav, Shruti, Garima life is about to change. They have the most sought after jobs in the country - jobs that will pay for designer clothes, shoes, watches, holidays in foreign locations...all the things they’ve ever wanted. But then, is life ever perfect?

Raghu likes to show that there is nothing remarkable about his life - loving, middle-class parents, an elder brother he looks up to and plans to study in an IIT. And that’s how he wants things to seem - normal. Deep down, however, the guilt of letting his closest friend drown in the school’s swimming pool gnaws at him. And even as he punishes himself by hiding from the world and shying away from love and friendship, he feels drawn to the fascinating Brahmi - a girl quite like him, yet so different. No matter how hard Raghu tries, he begins to care....

When Deb, an author and publisher, survives the bomb blasts at Chandni Chowk, he knows his life is nothing short of a miracle. But even as he recovers, his feet take him to where the blasts took place. From the burnt remains, he discovers a diary. It seems to belong to a dead man who was deeply in love with a girl. As he reads the heartbreaking narrative, he knows this story must never be left incomplete. Thus begins Deb’s journey with his girlfriend, Avantika, and his best friend, Shrey, to hand over the diary to the man’s beloved.

Deb is absolutely crazily in love with the stunning Avantika. He can’t believe she is his. Their relationship is going great except for the one time when Deb faltered by breaching her trust. After he apologized, Avantika grudgingly accepted him back. However, his insecurity about her seems to be pushing him into infidelity again. The trust he had worked so hard to build is lost once again. Will Avantika take him back this time, or will she move on? 

Deep, an awkward young man obsessed with libraries and books, has his dream come true when he is sent to Hong Kong on an internship program. Leaving behind jealous but encouraging friends; a supportive father; and a hysterical, overprotective mother; Deep makes his first flight to a foreign land. And then he sees Ahana, a stunningly beautiful girl. But Deep also has to come to terms with another reality: Ahana is blind. Together they explore Hong Kong, Ahana guiding them with the smells and sounds of the wondrous city and Deep bringing to life for her the delightful sights he sees.

All Debashish cares about is getting laid. His relationships are mostly short-lived and his break-ups messy until he falls in love with the beautiful and mysterious Avantika. When she returns his feelings, he is thrilled. However, his joy is short-lived as Avantika walks out of the relationship. A brokenhearted Debashish plunges into depression and his life takes a dizzying downward spiral. He finds himself without a job, friends, or a lover. Loneliness strikes him hard. That is when his friend Amit comes to his rescue and they start putting the pieces of his life back together.

The book is a complete package defining love, friendship, betrayal, and hatred that exists between the main characters of the story, Dhurv and Aranya. The story revolves around them. Both hate each other and could cross any limit to hurt each other, but still they cannot stay away from each other. The mad yet passionate attraction between the two describes modern-day relationships that most people can relate to. This book teaches the listeners that love can be found in mediocre things in life, and it doesn’t need to be all flashy and showy all the time.