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Unconventional: Love and Distraught in the time of Corona by Kalam Babu

 Unconventional: Love and Distraught in the time of Corona by Kalam Babu



Unconventional is a collection of raw stories that make you feel the pain of a person through varied angles. The stories give a glimpse of real life from an eye of the victim and get more struck due to covid when he/she is locked with the same person who is hated from the core of his/her heart.

There are 16 stories that make you dive into the lives of different person who make you feel their pain especially in the covid period. Their dilemna faces the reality where it is hard for them to either live or leave the person. Among these stories I liked "Scarlet"; "Ash of the Snow"; "Alive" and "Dhaman".

In the story Scarlet, the author paints the hard faced time of a wife. She is getting dream of scarlet as she is just a piece of flesh for his husband. Her relation with her husband is depicted that make you absorb the scars of a woman who is nagged day and night without pause. Yet the same woman has to come to satisfy the needs of the same person with a smile on her face. Will lockdown remove her scars or more deepen it?

Quotes from the book that piqued me:

🍉"Invisible to the naked eye, you have to dig deep and look for the scars in the reflection to see them. The eye lies, but the mirror never lies."

Here the author depicts the scars made by the partner who is hard to stop or move out of the bond due to societal norms or pressures. But the unbearable pain is also made by the same person whom you might expect more.

🍉"Dreams can be the maps to this stranger’s heart, whom I have come to love in my dreams, but they are definitely not the location pins to his place. And at times like these, I wish there was magic in the world."

Very true. Dreams have a callibre of taking you to a different world where you assume and feel what you might desire in the waked life. But still you desire that magic may prove your dream a reality.

🍉"Every time I look in the mirror, I see two faces. My old face fading out of the mirror and the new face coming into prominence. Every time I look in the mirror, I see two faces. Mine, the memory. And his, now. Every time I look in the mirror, I see rain falling.

Our mind wants to look for the things we deeply desire and long for. Our loniliness make you feel the things or emotions or persons you long for or have deeply effected your heart in one or the other way.

The author has well penned the emotions of a woman who longs for respect and love. His vivid descriptions of the place or the person give a glimpse of how one person effects the life of the other person.

Overall, it is journey of vivid dreams of a person aspiring for love and safety. I enjoyed reading the stories and would recommend them all.

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