The Gist of the Novel

© Atul Kaushal

The novel starts in future year 2017 with a secret female narrator describing the protagonist Akshant Sharma’s last rites after his death in a terrorist suicide-bomb attack. Then the secret narrator goes 27 years back to start again the story of the protagonist in a flashback to cover the protagonist’s birth, childhood, teenage and adulthood. She follows his life at each stage and focuses on his teenage. The author seeks to share his own experiences as a teenager almost till the middle of the story and hopes to teach the lessons learnt in his own teenage to the teenaged readers. In the following first few chapters, it becomes a young-adult-fiction which is aimed at the 16-24 age group of readers and finally it ends like a thriller involving the protagonist fighting off the terrorist hijackers at one stage and then him being killed in a suicide-bomb attack. In his fresh writing, the budding author puts forward an unbiased view towards the system of reservation & the need to rise above politics and reconsider the present viability of the social facet in India.

The author exploits his lyrical prowess in the 4 poems (these have proper tunes given to them in real life composed by the author and a few are present on YouTube^TM). The author also attempts travel guiding, describing Delhi’s Old Fort via the protagonist acting as a travel guide for a German-French tourist party and the Agra’s Taj Mahal. Other than English, the novel includes small decorative inputs in Hindi, French and German apart from inputs in Kannada, Punjabi & Haryanvi.