Publisher's Synopsis
As we all know, with the advancements we are dealing with almost every day, the efficiencies tend to be judged on the basis of how much time is consumed in dealing with a particular task and how much of it has actually been fruitful. We tend to think twice before lending our time to any task these days. Money has easily been replaced by time. Hence, I have come up with a concept of creating short format novellas. The experience and the thrill of going through the long format novels will be kept intact and the time consumed in finishing a novel will be greatly reduced. There's another reason in creating this particular story in a short format, every story demands a different approach. Some stories have to be told in an elaborate manner with all the intricacies intact while the other stories lose their essence if stretched and elaborated more than required. My idea of a great novel is that it has to make me forget my own life, it has to create a parallel world for me, it has to leave me wanting for more. This is a story of a young boy Karan Khanna, who is in his 20s, dealing with his college life. As the narrative begins to unfold, he starts to transform as a person from a young, timid and a prude boy to a relentless, open-minded and a tough 'man'. He has come home to his hometown, Chandigarh from Mumbai and finds his uncle, an unabashed chronic drinker who has always been the pain to the whole family, to be attacked by a brain stroke. He takes him to a hospital along with his Dad. They both very well know that he is not going to survive but are anyway doing whatever the doctor has asked them to do, to make him go painlessly. These three days change the protagonist's perspective towards life. He sees about twenty people dying during the course of these three days because of different diseases, drug addiction, accident prone cases, people suffering from heart and lung diseases. And here he is looking after the man who is lying in front of him, his very own Uncle. He is haunted by a horrifying past which is responsible for him to hate this man. No one from the family turned up to help him, yet here he is, him and his father, helping this man in his probable last moments. Can such a disturbing atmosphere filled with death, agony and pain turn you into an extremely positive person and change your perspective about the man who you have been hating for extremely strong reasons?
