On the other side of my life

‘On the other side of my life ‘, is a suspense story with a big climax. The story starts with a girl’s life named Sakina. Sakina lives in Mumbai and comes from a very orthodox muslim family. There are restrictions on everything in Sakina’s life then be it choosing career of her choice, higher education, partying with friends etc. in a nutshell, her life is butched up. Sakina is very bright in her studies and always got scholarship from class 10^th till her engineering. Sakina isn’t allowed to have male friends so let alone chatting with them. Her facebook ID is always searched for any male friends and her mobile too.

The second part of the story describes a boy named Aryan. Aryan lives in Mumbai and is from a free hindu family. The story describes his life in the college. Aryan has a younger brother named vihan. Like all younger siblings, vihan is very cranky and irritating to Aryan. The story describes the fun that they both have.

Aryan goes to Pune to attend a job interview, Sakina goes there too.  They see eachother on many occasions and finally when Aryan see’s Sakina at the bus station, he goes to speak with her. They both get that job and Sakina, after having a lot of resistance and arguments with her parents, goes to Pune to do the job. As time passes, Sakina’s and Aryan’s friendship grows and they fall in love with each other. They regularly go to Mumbai on weekends together. On one weekend, Aryan stays back in Pune and Sakina has to go alone to Mumbai. She gets into a bus going to Mumbai. At the next stop a boy gets in the bus and sits next to Sakina. They start to speak with each other. The boy introduces himself as Vivek and Sakina introduces herself as SABINA. As they talk with each other, we find out that Sakina even has facebook account by that name. however she refrains to give Vivek her contact number. Sakina even adds Vivek on facebook with the other ID. As time passes, they fall in love with each other.

RRashmi, Sakina’s roommate in Pune is a very jovial and has a loving personality. Rashmi earlier finds that they recive letters from various Spa’s, clubs, wrongly addressed to a girl named Sabina to their house. Initially. Rashmi feels that the letters are wrongly addressed but as the frequency of the letters addressed for Sabina increase, she finds it very irritating. Vivek and Rashmi are colleagues in the office. One day, Rashmi finds Sakina’s photo with Vivek in his phone and asks him about her. He tells her about her. As he tells her name ‘Sabina’ a glass falls down making noise and Rashmi feels that Vivek told her name as Sakina. As time passes Rashmi and Vivek become good friends and one day, in their casual tals he says that he and Sabina are dating each other and shows their photo together. Rashmi is shocked as she knows that Sakina and Aryan are dating each other. Smartly, she gets all information about Sakina from Vivek. She goes to their house, Sakina has a habit to write a dairy and Rashmi reads it. To her shock, she finds that Sakina has described about a girl named Sabina, who is pretty carefree and is tied with no bonds or restrictions.

Rashmi’s boyfriend, named Ravi is a psychologist.  Rashmi tells Ravi about Sakina and explains her case and here comes a big twist. Ravi tells Rashmi that Sabina is Sakina’s alter ego that Sakina always wished to be. Rashmi tells Vivek and Aryan about Sakina’s problem and one casually tells Sakina her problem. Sakina gets shock of her life and she calls both Aryan and Vivek to meet her at the same time. The story potrays some emotional words being exchanged between the three of them. Sakina gives solution to the mesh up between the three of them and tells that why not they remain just as friends and not be in any relation and the story ends here.

While I was dreaming about the big city

 

‘While I was dreaming about the big city’ is a fiction cum thriller novel. The protagonist is a simple boy from a small hill-town near Mumbai. The story begins in a thick jungle. Since it’s a night time so the place is very quite. We can hear the flattering sound of flying of the bats, the hooting sound of the owl and chirping of insects are the sounds that are prominent in the silence of the jungle.  In amidst of this you here a sound of a gunshot. The birds in the nests fly making a chorus of sound of their fluttering wings. There’s a waterfall in the jungle and sound of the water falling is prominent. The water is falling in a small pond created by the waterfall. A tired figure is walking up to the pond.

As he sees his reflected face in water, his face covered with blood drops. What he was before and now what he has become is a big question. His thoughts take him years back when he was a simple boy on the streets of Songarh. It’s a small hilly station on Nilgiri mountain range on Mumbai-Nashik highway. Vijay’s father worked in a farm while he worked in a shop as a helper. The heavy work in the shop and he used to go to a small mountain daily to see sunrise had made him very muscular. Vijay’s father died due to tuberculosis, so as he no attachment to his small town so he came to Mumbai and lived with his friend named Saurabh. They lived in a rented flat.

Vijay worked with a tea vendor. He would wash his cups, clean the premises etc. Vijay and Saurabh hadn’t paid house rent for months so the house owner drove them out of the house. As it was night time and they had no place to sleep that’s why they went to a beach. It was a secluded beach that was hardly frequented by people. Vijay saw a boat and men in it flashing light at the men on the beach and they were responding by flashes of their torches. As the boat came near the shore, men offloaded boxes from the boat. At that moment other men came and started beating the men who were offloading from the boat. Vijay jumped in that fight and beat the men until they ran away. In this process one man attacked Vijay with a knife and it made a bruise.

He was taken to a man who was the boss of the men who were unloading the stuff. Kumar told Vijay that he had fought and saved his gold. Kumar offered Vijay to work with him in the business of smuggling gold. Vijay thought hard over the offer. By taking the offer he would come out of his poverty but simultaneously he would enter into crime. Thus the simple Vijay that we knew became a criminal. Vijay often used to go to a bar and there he met Natasha. She was a struggling model and had been staying in Mumbai. As time passed, closeness between Vijay and Natasha grew. Vijay reluctantly told Natasha about his work and Natasha was okay with it.

As Vijay’s criminal graph grew so his enemies also grew. One such enemy named Rana was after his life. Police as usual were behind him. To run away from them he went with Natasha to Mauritius. Closeness in them grew on that trip. On returning to Mumbai, Kumar had a meeting with Vijay in a hotel. After finishing the meeting when they came out, Rana’s men fired at both of them. The bullet missed Vijay but it hit Kumar. Kumar got a severe injury and succumbed to it. Hiding all the way Vijay reached his house to see some men were standing near his house and pasting something. As he read it, it was a demolition notice of that house on behalf of B.M.C. Vijay realizes that all the things around him are false. They are only his imagination or say hallucination.

So he murders Natasha. While he was sitting at the pond he felt that someone had pushed him from behind. He turned his back and was surprised to find Saurabh with food packet in his hands. The sea was roaring big. Vijay realizes that it was indeed his dream. The thought to become rich at any cost had dominated his mind so he imagined things. The story ends with Vijay’s usual life.