Bombay rains Bombay girls!

just finished reading this book.......and it has got close to my heart:-)
the story starts with "shy" Adi joining his 1st yr medicine in Bombay.....first half of the book sees a monotonous series of events of a fresher starting with his college life.....ragging, girls, trouble with teachers, hangouts, exams, casual and serious chat with friends about just anything etc etc etc....but hats off to the writer who plays with words beautifully (a good book to learn good English) and this makes the reader curiously glued to the book to hunt for the future happenings and gets duly rewarded  for it in the second half.......he makes few good friends interesting one of them being Pheru who screws up his pharmacology exams every time and looks completely lost in his life:-(.....the rose day adds special glamor to the first half......Adi dedicates a rose to a "Bombay girl" Renuka only finding him in personal jeopardy:-(... in return he gets a white:-( (which means a friend just close to a stranger)....this marks a series of confusive thoughts both in Adi's mind and in the reader's as well. Renuka interestingly mingles and jingles with Adi's thoughts for quiet some time...slowly things fall in place and he finds his real love i.e Isha....the second half starts with a few romantic and thoughtful moments mostly in the Cama hospital....they two actually get to spend time with each other (alone) thanks to the strike laid down by the resident doctors there:-)....and in the "car" where the chemistry begins!....as the intensity of feelings grows the author cleverly diverts the story giving it a new direction wherein Toshi, a young friend of Adi from Nagaland, dies in an unfortunate plane crash:-(....Adi again finds himself in dilemma between exploring and strengthening his newly "born" relationship with Isha or to go to Toshi's hometown for his funeral finally the latter winning the bet.....but Isha understands it "understandably" well:-)....a long and hectic journey starts, leaving Adi and his friends humble-fumble....the journey throws some light on the plight of "poor" Indian Railways while Adi still in deep thoughts writing some quick letters here and there to his beloved......after the final rites of Toshi the author again quickly turns back and packs up with a silly gamble which proves a chance for Pheru to "finally" clear his 2nd MB......meanwhile Adi finds Isha's love when he opens the envelop given to him while leaving.....happy ending as it seemed, the author has nicely portrayed the life of a doctor, life of a student, life in Bombay!

my personal opinion:
i liked the artistic bunch of words extensively used by the author and a good knack of beautifully describing every bit so well......i imagined the story with good clarity.....on the whole a good "love" story:-)
Great Done Anirban!