Ohh Yes I Am Single...!: And So Is My Girlfriend by Durjoy Datta
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

The fourth in the novella co-written by the authors, brought in for the first time, a narration of his story by Durjoy and written by the Neeti.

Storyline: Joy, the main character in the author’s books, is as usual, the fun-loving engineering student in Delhi University, always thirsty for love and sex. Here again, he falls in love with many girls starting from his initial school crush Nisha, Sarah, Sheeny, Manika and Natasha. The endless love stories of Joy always end up after a passionate physical and mental relationship with them, sometimes, hurting them but always depressing Joy for some time after they move on. Finally he meets Manika, a mature journalist cum writer through his friend Siddharth in a secret rave party, whom he retains as his permanent girl friend for a quite a long time. Though both of them are in deep love with each other, they don’t realize the fact and hence get separated for a brief time in between. They re-unite after breaking up with their respective new partners and start afresh their physical and emotional love saga.

Positives: The way the book is written is quite interesting with one author narrating his short lived love stories and the other writing it with her own remarks in between. Elicits the fact as to how the younger generation is taking the feeling of LOVE as a mere short term physical and emotional attachment after which they just move on with some other partners, as easily as they change clothes. Also paves the way to know how they spoil their own careers and golden lives, in such quests for relationships, thanks to social networking sites and irresponsible parents.

Negatives: I still wonder as to how someone can fall in love so many times in such short periods. Probably we now need to coin some other term for the word LOVE, as it has been totally polluted with greater need for physical relationship than emotional attachment. Impending danger of the next generation to have no value systems in their blood as their creators just don’t know anything about them. I also wonder whether these are the same boys and girls who marry some other innocent true lovers, bear children and call themselves as ideal couples without any moral obligation towards the multiple sexual encounters they had with some one else in their college days? God save LOVE !!!!

My rating is 2.75 out of 5


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