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Peehu:
“I heard them mourn my death. I lay in the next room. Motionless, silent, and staring at the ceiling.”
Adih:
“When it comes to a broken person, some of them are expert at blinding you. Spend an entire evening with such a person, but you may still not know how he is crushing inside.”
Uday:
“Who would say no to him? He is smart, intelligent, super handsome, rich, suave and sophisticated. He’s perfect!”
Pooja:
“Pooja gave no explanation. She asked no forgiveness. She just arrived in his home, resenting him for being her husband.”
Arunav:
“He had smiled as if nothing was wrong.
He had behaved as if he still had his dreams and hopes.
He had pretended as if it didn’t hurt.
But it did.”
Does Destiny hold the key to our happiness?
Is it always the feeble that is the victim?
Love can be the embrace of heaven. But what happens when it unleashes hellfire?
Lose yourself in the intense narrative of You Came Like Hope as it unleashes a rollercoaster of emotions, uncovers some bitter truths, challenges widespread prejudices, and forces you to reconsider your beliefs.
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When your own book
asks you a question
My second novel Lemon Girl is a feminist fiction about crimes
against women and victim blaming. When it was published, some anti-feminist
Twitter trolls asked me, ‘What about fake cases? What about the cases where a woman
ruins the life and family of an innocent man?’
It was a question I could not put out of my mind. And my
third novel You Came Like Hope is the result of that. Although a romance, it
raises some very serious issues and challenges wide-spread prejudices. While I
was writing You Came Like Hope, this novel itself threw a very baffling
question at me. A question that I’m still trying to answer.
In You Came Like Hope, Pooja (the vamp) chooses Adih over
her husband and Peehu (the heroine) chooses Adih over her fiancé Uday. So,
basically, both do the same thing. Both break the heart of a man who loved
them. Adih is enraged at Pooja because the loser is his own dear brother. But
when Peehu does the same thing, he is delighted as a winner. When Peehu makes
her choice, Uday uses the exact same words of rage that Adih had used when
Pooja had made her choice.
Incident 1:
‘So? Are you ready to be mine?’ Pooja asked the younger
brother, rubbing her hand on his thigh.
‘Go to hell!’ he let out through his clenched teeth. He
said nothing more. But his unsaid words of rage rang in his silence.
Incident 2:
I turned to him. ‘Uday,’ I began, but couldn’t continue.
He must have seen my desires floating in the moisture of
my eyes. He must have seen his defeat.
His hands fisted up by his side. His eyes burnt with rage
as they looked at me without blinking. ‘Go to hell!’ he let out through his
clenched teeth. He said nothing more. But his unsaid words of rage rang in his
silence.
In short, the heroine does what the vamp does, and the hero
says what his rival says. Yet, we approve of the hero and heroine and shake our
head at Pooja and Uday. Why?
If these characters do and say the same things, why do we
favour some and reject the others as wrong? Do we care more for the ‘good’
characters because we have glimpsed into their heart and so understand them
better? Or is it because the reason of the action matters more than the action?
After all, even killing is a murder for one and a patriotic duty for other.
My novel You Came Like Hope is now in market. But I’m still
baffled by the way this parallel developed between the good and the bad
characters. I’m still trying to figure it out. I know that if I try, I can
easily show where the bad characters were right, and the good characters were wrong,
without changing their life history. All I need is to tell the story from their
perspective.
That brings me to the final question. Is right and wrong or
good and bad just a matter of perspective?
What do you think?
About the Author:
Jyoti has over five years of experience working as a freelance writer. This experience includes abridging over 24 famous English classics like Jane Eyre, Moby Dick etc.
Jyoti Arora is a patient of Thalassemia Major. But she does not let this stop or discourage her. For her determination and achievements, Jyoti has received appreciation from Ms Sheila Dixit, Ms Maneka Gandhi and the Ghaziabad wing of BJP. Her life story has been covered in various local and national TV shows, radio programs, newspapers, magazines and websites like YourStory and Inspire India. She was also one of the ‘100 Women Achievers of India’ that were invited to witness the Republic Day parade of India (2016) as special guests.
Besides reading and writing novels, Jyoti also enjoys blogging and has won several blogging competitions. She loves checking out latest technological innovations, watching movies, and listening to old Bollywood songs. Reach her at jyotiarora.com.
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Giveaway:
2 Paperback Copies of You Came Like Hope for Indian Residents Only
2 eBooks of You Came Like Hope for International Winners
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