My Review of "Faraway Music" by Sreemoyee Piu Kundu

She held my hand and took me along

Where I was not told that others are right and I am wrong…
We sat near the fire…cosy with a coffee…
And she told me my story as if it was not mine 

Well…that’s just something which Sreemoyee did to me through her Faraway Music…  Was it my story? The same characters? The same plot? No, not really… the plot was different, so were the characters, the names and the places… still there was a familiarity which just could not be missed… 

To tell you about the book and the story…well….the creation just is so beautiful that one can’t help but fall in love with the time spent with it…Pick the book and you are greeted with a sensuous lady just next to the title “Faraway Music” … and at once, you are transported to a land where there are no rules, no restrictions, only love and desire with melodious notes of music in the background… And then as you turn over the pages, you realise it’s not some story of a wonderland but yeah, definitely a wonderful story of a woman…a woman who has dreams to work for, confidence to make the dreams come true and courage to persist till the victory sign flashes for her…. but that never means she doesn’t wish to be liked, wanted, loved and adored. The story revolves around Piya...her journey from a girl to a woman, from crushes to infatuation to a harmony between love and lust…from her desire to be wanted to the pride of being wanted. Piya is someone who never let the society or fate decide things for her….she made her choices boldly, be it right or wrong…after all how it matters when the journey is eventful all along… The story is beautifully woven around the myriad nature of human emotions, relationships and their manifestations in several forms… it’s a story to be drunk slowly, relished till the last drop and cherished when it has gone all the way to your heart.'

Indeed...

Books - I call them my friends :)

When you start blogging after a long time, it's easy to be confused or well..that's how I wish to think it's like :) So, I thought why not start by writing about very simple things- my views on them- what I feel about them ..so here I go... I am going to tell you about my magical love affair with books :)

So, of late I have been coming across several fellas who got nothing to do with books and I find it hard to understand how do they manage !!! I love books and wouldn't ever like to live without them .You ask me why I love books ? I can go on and on :)

The first dear friends..

When I was a little kid, I had to stay home all alone as both my parents were working and there was no other living soul to give me company. And that was when Mom introduced me to books..books with stories ..books with poems... I instantly discovered a whole new world with them.. I got friends..I traveled places, went on adventures with my friends, felt happy with them , felt sad when things didn't go right with them.. Even before I could actually realize, I had fallen for them . If I am asked who was my first dear friend, it was definitely one of those pretty colorful books Mom got for me back then. Gradually colors and images gave way to more text, more characters and longer stories... Even though I was yet to interact with many people in the real world, I started understanding tidbits about human relations in the books. Books taught me, entertained me, kept me busy, kept me happy, made me more humane ...introduced me to a world where I forgot completely that I didn't really have any other living soul besides me.

My Agony Aunts...

I have been an independent person mostly; I like doing things myself, sorting problems myself. Guess how I manage? Books again !!! In Books, they seem to have all kinds of situations in one form or the other- sometimes direct references make you gasp in awe while at other times, one needs to exercise his wits to understand the indirect references out before you in black and white. I always found my books handy..they taught me things which stayed with me sub-consciously and helped me whenever I was in trouble.. So, now you see.. .I indeed have secret genies ;)

My Lovers...

What's love? Who taught me ? Mom and dad definitely did their bit by showing how they loved me :)
But apart from them, my books taught me all about love- the magic, the pain, the pleasure, the battles, the complications and how the feeling of real love is independent of all these and the heart just knows to love the lover.. Whenever I was in an affair, I felt the magic even better..when I lost in love, I knew how to take in the pain and survive.. And I learnt to never stop hoping, never stop loving just coz sometimes in life you encountered people you could have managed without as well.

My Tour Guides... 

Do I love to travel ? Yes... Have I really traveled much ? No. Irony, you say ? Say if you must however I gently beg to differ... I haven't sipped tea sitting on the English countryside... I haven't fallen in love across rivers separating me from my lovers... I haven't trekked to jungles and woke up to the chirping of birds in the wee hours of the morning... I haven't gone about sipping wine in Tuscany or hugged my love tight in the Alps... I haven't been amazed by big temples in Benaras nor I have has the joy of eating apples straight from the orchards in Himachal..but somehow I know I love those...I have traveled places in my books.... And I know I love it :) I haven't lived in several places but have pieces from different cultures are beautifully imbibed in my psyche without me even ever making an effort for the same.. that's the magic of books..

Light at the end of the tunnel ... 

Life is beautiful.. No doubts about that....however, it would be dishonest to say that all moments in life, you feel life's being good to you.. There are way too many instances when life throws lemons at us..sour and not to our liking...we can't help running into such situations.. but what we can have in our control is how we emerge from such situations.. And my books constantly helped me...Whenever I felt alone..helpless...lost...defeated...somewhere in between those pages, I learnt there are troubles bigger than me, joys that I have overseen..emotions worth fighting for...I learnt the battle is not all lost and I can make it :)


Am I done with all my reasons....well, I doubt !!! I shall update this post whenever a new reason comes up on the canvas of my mind :) But one thing never gonna change - My love for books :) I do...and shall continue to do so not until death...but across eternity if that indeed exists :)

There's no right time to start great things :)

Do I wait to eat that piece of chocolate I have been craving for? Maybe not. Why?  May be because it hardly involves any effort :) But in spite of being a person who loves to read, to write, to observe, I have always been so lazy when it comes to start a blog or rather continue the blog I once had the guts to start when I was a kid :) But not any more... I so wished to start something nice and guess what !!! This's the loveliest thing I can start instantly :) So, I am back and promise not to leave no matter how busy my days get..how tiring my nights tend to be :)

Love needs a little bit of extra effort after all :)  May be I start by compiling few things I scribbled here and there and then new things shall keep flowing in :)