"This Post may contain spoilers. So if you haven't read it yet, i advise you from reading this "Finally, after a long wait, I read "I too had a Love Story" by Ravinder Singh. To think that I passed on buying this book thrice and had read it so late irks me now. On the top of the book is a simple review by N.R. Narayana Murthy which says "Simple, honest and touching" and I couldn’t agree more. It’s not one of those great epic novels that will get make everyone stand up and clap. It’s a simple book with simple characters and a simple story that everyone can relate with. And then a true story, a string of
events which happened in the life of the author. In an age where the term "True Love" is very loosely used, such that many dont believe in it anymore, this story will give everyone a belief that it really does exist.
The story is about Ravin(Shona) in Bhubaneswar and Khushi(Shonimoni) in Faridabad. Both working in the IT industry and trying to grow in their field. The story goes on about how they meet via Shaadi.com and fell in love with each other in due time. A modern love story in which, love starts from a website and multiplies via mobile calls, SMS’s and chats and finally the meet. To add it is the romance, the humor, the descriptions, the feelings. Not to forget, the final chapter. Everything adds up to make this a wonderful (in want for a better word) experience (not able to call it a book anymore). The events here can be summed up in the following line:
"Not everyone in this world has the fate to cherish the fullest form of love. Some are born, just to experience the abbreviation of it."
While asking me to read it my friend said that in the end I would feel sad for Ravin, I will feel sad for Khushi. And I did. The fact that I put myself in the characters shoes didn’t help. I didn’t know what was happening around, didn’t know what to do, was lost and didn’t know how time went. And the rest of the day the the events just kept flashing in front of me. Before I slept that day I did say a small prayer for Ravin(der).
The back cover of the book has the following line
"Not all love stories are meant to have a perfect ending. Some stay incomplete. Yet they are beautiful in their own way."
Ravin, I understand it would have been very difficult for you to pen it all down. May your story live long.
To everyone who has ever loved someone, and then to those who have loved and lost, I would suggest you to read this. You will laugh, you will feel attached, you will build palaces in the sky, you will love every moment, you will feel sad and then, maybe, you will cry.
P.S: If anyone from Bollywood is trying to make a movie out of it, I have a humble request to you. PLEASE DON'T.
