Yes! I have read it!

My reply to anyone who asks me this with a raised eyebrow, “You have read Harry Potter!”

I have not just read it my friends, I have lived and read each book more than 3 times.

Why?! Because it relates to me! A kid who wants to be understood and considered as an adult is in every one of us. People think living in a fairy tale and fantasizing about having all those magic around you is childish. To dream and portray ourselves among the icons of an era. To be able to float in the words of a brilliant writer and to understand the need to be in love & to be loved is not just for kids.

Harry Potter was a magical and mystical world of words! J K Rowling created it with so much balance that the thread she weaved throughout the course of the series was the bond of love & friendship.

I would say I grew up with Harry Potter, Hermione & Ron! When I started reading the book I was thirteen years old so were all three of them! I had carried a radio antenna around as a wand and always tried to jinx bullies!

My experience with the seven books is dedicated to Aparna for reminding me the days I spent with Harry & his friends. Those magical days with my friends at Kendriya Vidyalaya and those moments of goose bumps, will remain cherished in my heart!

Mischief Managed!

I too had a love story - Ravinder Singh

A boring train journey back home was in my plans! By then I remembered borrowing a book from Vinay.
This was supposedly a romantic work. Romantic novels never inspired me (nor to love, nor to read them)!

May be no romantic book made me feel enough as movies did. Movies like "The Notebook" left me dreaming and fantasizing about a love life so beautiful & enchanting. That's when I got "I too had a love story" !

After boarding the train, I scoped for possible targets to look at & ponder. It was one of those days when you see couples all around and look out of the window just to remain satisfied that there is no one near to eat your head!

Lost in my thoughts, I opened the book. Small book, matter of hours! Enough to make boring journey mildly interesting.

Boys will be boys! The book gave all impressions of the same. A blossoming love story through the magical web of internet! From there began a different love story. Conventional boy girl talks and the proposal. Left me wondering whats so special about this book.
The title of the book still kept me reading through. The romance and the happiness where getting to me. Rest of the journey I was thinking about being in love again.

The title was something that kept me probing into the book. In between I even thought I was a sadist waiting for the inevitable tragedy to occur. But the bliss of being in love was so scintillating that I forgot the title and kept on going.

Was it very abrupt? I kept asking myself. She can't die, she can't leave him alone. Mixed emotions and tears found their way out. I cried after reading that book. I remember the instance when i felt "Titanic" was stupid and didn't have any logic in "Rose" crying over "Jack"'s demise. But here I am in a train to Kannur, trying hard to with hold my tears, that too after reading a book.

Mr. Ravinder Singh, some where in the book you hit the nerve that made me feel being alone is far better than being in love. I don't know whether to compliment you for the book or criticize you for the feelings that welled up in me. But I loved your book and the style in which you portrayed it.

I too had a love story - touched the love inside me!