Bhabra

description + note

DESCRIPTION

"The lights are cheeky, you can't live without them, and yet if you get too close, they'll blind you. Darkness? Well it doesn't cheat. It's cool and soothing. It's reliable."

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Madhulika Thakur thought it would be a good break from work when she agreed to visit the countryside. After all, someone needed to sort out the property her family owned there and real estate was her forte.

What she didn't expect was to be engulfed by a landslide of issues just waiting to be addressed. She must navigate her way through the mess of a fragile social fabric, complex caste equations and the sheer helplessness of the people she never knew worked for her; all the while trying to regain the trust of a long-abandoned old friend.

For the first time in her life, she must choose between what she wants and what is right.

NOTE

Hey guys, so I actually wanted to start with Alia's book after finishing CTIADTT but turns out, it would require a lot more time and research to perfect. So, I decided to just keep it nice and safe in a corner of my mother's laptop and move on to another story for the time being.

That being said, Bhabra is definitely going to be a lot more grounded and a lot more, Indian, if that makes sense. Ashiana and her friends lived in a very urban part of modern India and it was also set in 2016 through 2018, so it would be pretty different from Bhabra which is set in a remote village of Northern Uttar Pradesh, in the year 2006.

Consequently, though this entire novel is in English, I have occasionally mentioned some Hindi words, just to add on to the general theme of this book. While I would provide a glossary whenever necessary for those who don't speak Hindi, there would be no particular need to refer to it all the time, because all the words would be used in a larger context of the narration and description and their meanings would become quite clear if you just continue reading. It would be like those romance novels with sexy Italian love interests who sometimes say sexy stuff in Italian, that even a non-Italian person can understand. However my usage of local words would rarely ever be sexy.

Also, Bhabra is the name of the village this book is set in, just to get that out of the way. It's a fictional village located in a fictional district of a real Indian state called Uttar Pradesh that borders Nepal. People always ask me why I chose "Crossing the 'i's and Dotting the 't's" to be the title of my first work but I think in this case, the name choice is pretty clear.

So well, that's all I needed to say, I really hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it!

PS: This book has been marked mature as it contains scenes of violence, abuse, animal abuse and references to sexual content. Occasional though rare profanity too.