Three Impossible Wishes

These marks on our palms are formed when we clench and unclench our fists in the womb. We make our own lines. In a way, we write our own destiny.

-Anmol Malik, ‘Three Impossible Wishes’.

Chocolatey, piquant, winsome and humorous, this book is the perfect slice-of-life fiction to be enjoyed on a lazy weekend.

The book is about a 19yr old Arya who’s accepted and is studying in Westley University and has missed her second year  basic level test albeit now she has to achieve a perfect score to clear the second year, avoid the risk of deportation and the wrath of her dad who thinks she’s a ‘bheja kam’. Thus starts her hassle for survival which starts with every student life hacks and ends up into a researched jugaad that requires pursuing the stubborn and stoic Vladimir Petrov. She has to also keep up with the desi filthy rich friends of her crush cum bestie Sahil and make the right moves to get Sahil love her back instead of being friendzoned. Arya is practically a dodo who’s filled with timidity, mad theories about love, self-doubt and her entangled talent around food and words.

It’s an intriguing, hilarious and a page-turner, I wanted to read just 80 pages for a day and – whoops – I read the entire book in a single sitting…that’s how amazing  it is.  It is a story about dreams and wishes; and how the most unusual wish comes true in the most unusual form only and only after one goes after it. It’s about misunderstandings, friendship, love, laughter, failure and above all the true meaning of family and it’s importance. About wacky ideas and facing risks, about people who would always go the extra mile just for you.

Three Impossible Wishes

In all a delightful read, I simply loved it. If you love reading rom-com, realistic YA Books where people talk their age, heart-warming desi in vides reads go for it. 

Boons And Curses

The highest human virtue is to sacrifice self-interest for the welfare of others. This “giving with love” gives permanent peace. Actually, motherhood is all about giving and that is why it is so special.
-Yugal Joshi.

‘Boons and Curses’ is a stoic narrative by the author exhibiting the interaction between mournful Queen Kunti (the mother of the Pandavas) and revered mythological Hindu God ‘Krishna’ after the bloodbath following Mahabharata where brothers fought with each other. The grief-stricken Kunti seeks guidance and judgment from her nephew Krishna who provides her solace giving examples of various valorous  women in Hindu mythology.

I prefer not to call the book a re-telling but rather the author tries to justify and provide wisdom about the sacrifices and the reasons why a woman may contemplate to fulfill her desires and ambitions through her children by telling the stories of royal, tainted, depressed, oppressed woman who strived to be steadfast in their nobility in the face of oppression from society, sons and daughters, parents and husbands.

Language of the book is simple, stories have a rational tone and you can start reading from any chapter and gain the positivity you seek. Recommended for mythological, historical, philosophical, fiction readers.

Boons And Curses

I Still Remember

The best thing was that I did not even want to find another person to fill the void he had left behind. I filled the void with my own sunshine and embarked on a beautiful journey to find my own true self.

The wind remembers
what you have forgotten,
And whistles through the barren trees,
like a long lost melody.

-Priya Prithviraj, ‘I Still Remember’.

It’s a beautiful short read about love ,hurtful feelings, coming out and that lovely song which replays in the back of your mind.

If you are looking out for a light-headed romantic read to forget or remember someone special on this monsoon day grab it, you won’t be disappointed…set against a korean background it evokes freshness.

The Unsolved Case Of An Indian Woman

Death is like a game of rolling dice. No matter who plays it for you, it will always remain uncertain. It can come anytime. No matter who protects you. When you have to go, you have to go. There is no choice. But what seemed to be worse was the fear of death.


-Puneet JH, ‘The Unsolved Case Of An Indian Woman’.

It’s a riveting story about the troubled life of Meenu, Sneha and famous advocate Ms. Tandel; and the unfathomable dream that connects them to the killer in reality. Set in the beautiful Indian territory called Daman which was under Portugal occupation untill 1961, this book is a page-turner.

I loved how the narrative changes with each character their age, knowledge and experience. Each of them narrating the events happening in their life in different time zones, the people who are helping them live their sad life, the one’s who hate them, their secret plans and the havoc that shatters their life. The description of Daman, it’s beaches and the life of the locals is refreshing…I haven’t read much about Daman in India books
The story keeps you hooked and that’s why I loved the book…that’s what a thriller book should be like.


But But But the story could have been a 5 star winner had the author invested in writing a few more chapters about Sneha and Meenu, few chapters could be shuffled so the mystery could be enjoyed by the readers with more elevated heart beats umm I got disappointed that it was thrown  early but the author however builds a new enigma to stay true to the title yet I feel a few more chapters could be added there plus if each chapter had begun with a date…now I’m talking like the reader who’s completely amazed by the book and has turned into an editor.

The language is lucid. Recommended to all thriller fans who like it quick.

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