The Pink Smoke

 

“A story filled with Love and Nicotine”

Author: Shomprakash Sinha Roy

Published By: Grapevine Publishers

ISBN: 978-93-818-4131-0

About the Author:

Shomprakash is a technical consultant at Dell International Services and currently resides in Bangalore. He belongs to a generation of infant adults who grew reading the words of J.K.Rowling. The concepts of magic and good literature seems pretty close, via definitions, by the time he stumbled upon the works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and then got steadily inspired by a rising breed of Indian Authors.

Prior to this manuscript he has been published alongside a host of international contributors in The Traversal of Lines, an India/UK Cross Cultural Anthology. Additionally some of his short works and novellas including This is Friday and The Chief of Baghdad have seen the light of the online world in the Amazon Kindle format.

Click here to check his- Personal Website

You can also follow him at: Twitter

Book Blurb:

Sid’s life is Mellow, yet messed up. What happens when his affinity for perpetual bliss collides with the pink theories of love and the dark recesses of Addiction.

Siddhant Roy is an adolescent evolving into adulthood. His ideas on human attachment and addictions are driven by the people around him. As he learns about life in a strange city, he begins to embrace popular culture and plunges head first into the fresh and welcoming arms of love. The elusively pink & feminine sentiment of his muse drives him insane but keeps him happy.

His experimentation with desires, addictions, Bangalore, people and places leads him on a journey towards the eviction of subtly fragile emotions. Join him and his best friends- polar opposites, Ashish and Saahil – as he narrates his tale of love, grass and life.

My Review:

The story starts with a prologue where the protagonist, Siddhant Roy narrates his life to Anil Roy; a stranger whom he meets just some while ago. Set in the backdrop of Bangalore this story takes you back to your engineering life (If you are an engineer too).

Siddhant Roy never wanted to be an engineer rather he wanted to be a writer. In fact he was working on his manuscript Touchdown since his school days. His parent might have never allowed him to go Bangaloreif he had wished to pursue anything else but Engineering. So to dream a life in the so-called Electronic City of India he chooses Engineering.

His life wasn’t a fairy tale and it wasn’t that bad either until he broke up with the girl, Nikita Sen. He met her through a social network and soon their text conversations changed into phone calls. They got committed, made love as if there is no tomorrow and when everything was going good, Nikita’s past intervened their relationship.

You might be thinking what’s so special in the book. It’s just like any other teenage love story. Okay, let me tell you some more things about this book:

Apart from love stuffs, this book will take you into a real world where you could easily witness the protagonist’s struggle. Every page will make you crave to know what’s happening in Sid’s life. Trust me when I say: if you are an engineer, after finishing the book you will definitely say, “This is so me” (Like I did.)

All I could say is this story is a mixture of love, romance, lust, erotica and life. Reel, yet so Real !!

My Rating: 4.5/5

(A must pick.. I read it while I was traveling in a train and to be honest, I didn’t even realized how I covered the 15 hours journey while reading the book)

Wana Grab a Copy ??

To Buy at Amazon:  Click Here

To Buy at Flipkart:  Click Here

NOTE: To Read my Review of another book of Shomprakash Sinha Roy, do click here: Life Served Hot

Life Served Hot

" -- Best Taken with a pinch of Salt"


Author: Shomprakash Sinha Roy

Published By: Grapevine India Publishers

ISBN: 978-93-818-4110-5

About The Author:

Shomprakash Sinha Roy stays in Bangalore and works as a content developer at Dell Inc. He has previously written The Pink Smoke to narrate the initial stages of his life’s events in a censored fictional basket (his own words). He loves books, and has a fantastic collection of classics and contemporary hits.

He joined engineering in 2008, but eventually dropped out, owing to a difference in opinion with his college authorities and multiple medical complications. He later attended grad school at th Institue of Charted Financial Analysts in India, to work his way towards a degree in Business Management. He claims that his greatest sustainable experience stems from the struggle he has witnessed.

Book Blurb:

Siddhant Roy is back in Bangalore after being detained and having had a really depressing semester. He wants to rebuild his life from scratch without looking back…

But he is an engineering student, after all. It never gets easy!

He makes a bunch of new friends, who takes him on a journey where he crashes into strange apartments, gets drunk and pukes halfway across the city, tries to start an online social network and watches all his efforts fail miserably.

He faces denial, acceptance, love and hatred, all in the span of less than a year. He must now make a choice, whether to silently withstand the oppression of his sinister & stubborn college principal, or to risk everything and take his own stand.

What will Siddhant do????

My Review:

This might be a fictional book but this book will make you confront with the reality. No doubt we are living in a century, where every other person is an engineer or a doctor but here the Author has something different to say.

Siddhant Roy, the protagonist of the story returns to Bangalore to continue his engineering where he was detained in the previous year. He decides to start his life afresh. He befriends Ridhim, Vishal, Gaurav and others and life started running smoothly for him. But Life isn’t that easy, is it ??

Things then started becoming hard for Siddhant. His parents were informed about his boozing, from none other than the principal himself. Nothing went good for him. When he was thinking to start a new life with his –ex, she left him and moved on, leaving him behind as a loser.

To know the complete story, you need to read the book. It would be highly unfair to the Author, if I write everything here.

The best thing about this book is its writing style. The Author has beautifully written the book making it a good read. It has a gripping story where you will find no option but to turn the page. Like me, I bet, you will crave to know the story of Siddhant Roy.

My Rating: 4/5 (Obviously, a good read. you can easily connect with the character). 

Wana Grab a Copy ??

To Buy at Amazon:  Click Here

To Buy at Flipkart:   Click Here