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Check out all the books by Rahul Shandilya
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All the Sunshine that Wasn't Grey
Three women. Three independent stories of how broken people see love.
In the Sky of a Million Stars
For an introverted city-lad like Abheer, the only respite from boredom in his dadi maa’s village is looking at Fatima in the paddy fields from his bedside window every morning. But the poor girl is cursed, says dadi maa. Any silly superstition hurting Fatima is blasphemous to the things she makes Abheer feel. What is this curse? What shall be the fate of a friendship that blooms in its shadow?
A Wistful Woman’s Chronicle
At 37, the sensual, immoral Mridula pleads herself a victim of the most horrible things a woman could face, which stem from two men in her past. Maybe she would not have loved and looted hundreds of men otherwise. Or maybe not. If these two men die, her past will stop haunting her. She can then discover who she truly is. On this killing spree, she meets a young, lively seventeen-year-old Rishi, and she is tempted to befriend him. Is this temptation just her immoral instincts? What is Mridula’s story? What will this friendship cost Rishi?
Fireflies
Adeeba is a lesbian. Why else should she have to leave her village Rohila, lose Ammi or her little sister Sabeena. If she didn’t love Bhoomi, she didn’t have to run her away from that nasty ritual. Sabeena didn’t have to lose her leg; Bhoomi her memory. After all, no one had saved Adeeba! But if she is a lesbian, why is love sprouting inside her for Veer? How could she love them both, when her body could love only one? And how differently? How far can we got to make ourselves feel loved and understood?
