Rikky Bhartia’s maiden book answers various questions about young love
Rikky Bhartia's maiden book answers various questions about young love, and what makes it different from an infatuation, crush and friendship
Mumbai: Short attention span or too many options at one’s disposal — what makes today’s couples call it quits? Opines Kolkata-based debutante writer Rikky Bhartia says, “Today’s teenagers are totally confused about their feelings. They have no idea whether to dub it crush, infatuation, friendship or love. They just keep grappling with a palette of diverse emotions and don’t know how to deal with it.”
Posing as a modern-day love guru, the 24-year-old Chartered Accountant cites the “indecisive dilemma” amongst the GenY as a major driving force behind his judiciously penned novel Me “N” Her — A Strange Feeling. He observes that “it’s very easy to touch base and interact over the various electronic modules accessible nowadays. So it’s obvious that two lonely hearts will casually bump and break into each other’s personal space and finally get close, and even cosy, if needed. However, the sooner they fall head over heels in passion, the faster they split to go separate ways. This frequent hop in and out of a relationship has become a norm of the day, courtesy the misreadings of human expressions.”
He rues that the failure to detect the differences between infatuation, love and friendship often mars the otherwise congenial chemistry between a boy and a girl. “Until it knocks at your door, love doesn’t reveal itself. It steps in silence, and people often tend to overlook its actual signs. Someone has rightly said that matters of the heart are really tricky to fathom. These amorous fire and desires are nothing, but a game of riddle,” he philosophises.
On a personal note, he adds that his is a part autobiographical story “No maiden piece of any author can be a complete fiction. It has to be influenced by their life’s journey,” he says as he admits that the male protagonist in his book is a true reflection of his own persona.
But this commerce graduate from Bhawanipur Gujarati Education Society College in Kolkata didn’t make a cakewalk start to his literary journey. He had to cross many academic hurdles before finally taking the plunge into his creative leanings. Quiz him how difficult was it to push his interests on the backburner for his studies, the chatty Libran quickly sets the record straight: “It wasn’t much of a struggle as I was always a hard-working, intelligent, good student, at least according to my teachers and family. Also, I wanted to be well-placed in life and help bail my family out of the financial-crunch. I knew that a professional degree will give me the basic capacity to fulfill my dreams.”
Currently working for a leading corporate firm, this ambitious man, with plans up his sleeve, aims to be an entrepreneur and contribute to the future publishing industry.
Though writing is his first love, Bhartia announces that he would never make it a full-fledged career. Soaring high on the positive responses he has been receiving for his book, he hopes to see his prospective readers either find new love, or save their lost love after riffling through his fiction. “Then only my hard-pressed efforts will reap its rewarding fruits,” says Rikky.
( Source : deccan chronicle )
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