Life is a Bitch by Asmit Rathod

Ofcourse "Life is a bitch", why else do you think it would be called 'Life'. Right? The author has presented an extraordinary view of Kumar's perspective towards life and how his life turns out fatal yet he decides to 'Give Up!'

I received this book as a giveaway from the author Asmit Rathod  in exchange for an honest review

Kumar is a middle-class man whose needs and dreams do not walk on the same path. The desire to achieve what we live for and the circumstances that bound us to differ from our choice is what we call LIFE! We all have a little box of dreams which fondles in our head and often creates confusion in making life-dependable choices. What we choose changes everything for us. 

We all face ups and downs of life, some deal with it and some give up! Kumar almost gave up when life gave him his first shock at work. He learnt about the reality of the selfish world around him. Whatever was left in his heart was torn into pieces when the love of his life left him due to her family circumstances. The shock left him helpless and he went away to live the life of a nomad.

Lost love could even break the strongest of men

During his nomadic venture he experienced metaphysical changes within himself and shared his experience with a stranger. Other than the stranger mentioned in this book, I was the other stranger engrossed in his perspective towards life and was desperate to reach 'the Kumar' that was yet to come towards the end of this book. That is perhaps the reason that I finished this book by the blink of an eye. I was the journalist sitting with this random person speaking fluent English yet driving a truck of national permit and sharing his traumatic life. 

In the fast-paced life; job to home and home to job, we often forget to see what's beyond that perspective. That's why people like me go for holidays and then feel sick of coming back to this hectic lifestyle. Kumar took a permanent break, we all do. We all at one point quit and sit and think "I had enough, what to do next". Kumar went through a depression period where he choose an entirely different path and walked along it. In this process, he realised that life happens to you and how you deal is already assigned in destiny but whether you accept it or not is your decision.

Nicely and simply written with a twist of 'Hinglish', very rare in books these days yet very playful. After-all the emotions that could be explained in Hindi would not com across so strongly if explained in any other language.