A bright green touch to the otherwise black and white life
of everyone in today’s time surely makes this book an instant grab for readers
of all age groups. Teemed with the title, Emotions Unplugged; debut author
Vishal Anand makes this a really wonderful read. Did I mention that the name of
the publisher also plays a part here? Moments it is!
According to the back cover- Emotions Unplugged is a collection of 15 short stories based on
different genres. Diksha, travels through the roads of Mumbai a day prior to
her divorce with her husband, Virain; Gauri steals the money from her master’s
locker and runs to her village; Rizwan works as a laborer in construction sites
at Dubai in spite of being the son of a rich man from Bangladesh; Samar gets
last gift of love from his grandmother after her death; Patrick believes after
visiting a state that he has visited a country, he still had to visit 27 more
countries in India; Rajat spends the night in different bars with a friend to
meet a lady, Palak; an old lady who believes in her religion and hates Muslims
finds an indigestible truth when she visits her daughter’s home; Vinit falls in
love with a veiled girl while travelling in Delhi metro to reach his office
everyday and a lot more. Numerous emotions pluck in to bring a thought
provoking cocktail. Indeed pen is mightier than sword, and words have potential
to bring the change. And surprisingly you never know when it does.
Yes, as the blurb says; it surely is as interesting as it
gets. While reading the book, I could feel a myriad of emotions flowing through
me. Relating myself to most of the characters of the stories represented in the
book.
I would like to congratulate the author and the publisher
for it’s because of them that the book is easy to hold and easy to read, making
it a perfect coffee table book. The stories presented in it surely gives the
readers a picture of the amount of research the author has put in to make the
book what it is now.
One of the perks of the book is the fact that it is a
collection of short stories (with a moral) other than the regular novels that
we read. Through this book, the author has very well nurtured the narrating
style while writing different kinds of stories.
All the stories had a feeling of their own with a moral of
their own. I loved the fact that every story begins with a quotation from some
renowned people. No story felt repetitive and that made the book all the more
interesting.
Among the drawbacks of the book, I would like to state that
most of the stories needed a proper proofreading because many errors were
spotted which might, at places drop the speed of the book.
A few stories, if written in a more descriptive way would’ve
made the book just wonderful.
Nonetheless, a very nice and thought enriching
read; I would like to rate it 3.75 out of 5 waiting for more to read from the
author.
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