Author: Shyam Kumar

Publisher: BecomeShakespeare.com

Published: 2019-09-12

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 9388942078

Raj and Anjali meet and develop mutual respect and love for each other on the very first meeting in the office and find in each other as their soul mate in the days to come. Raj owes Anjali his life when she saves him from drowning. She becomes more adorable for him. He wants to marry her. But his family does not agree. He wants to disassociate himself with his family to make Anjali his life partner. But she, sacrificing her own love for Raj, persuades him not to go against the wishes of his parents and instead she offers her assistance in selecting a suitable girl for him recommended by his family members. Raj unwillingly accepts the choice of his family and finally marries a girl, whom he has never met before and finds himself at crossroads to balance his life between his love and responsibilities. It takes a long time for him to negotiate with life without his dream girl, Anjali. Tragedies in the family and the increasing pressure at home widen the breach between the two lovebirds. It creates feelings of bitterness and betrayal between the two. Anjali not only suffers the loss of all her near and dear ones, but also feels betrayed by those for whom she has sacrificed her own peace of mind to make their life comfortable and on whom she desires to depend upon during grey years of her life. She finds herself all alone and no one to take care of her. As her age is declining, she needs some social security and decides to look for a life partner. She seeks the help of Raj and ultimately chooses a life companion, a widower with grown-up children for herself and one fine morning she goes with a stranger to spend her life with, leaving behind her past and breaking all her promises made to Raj that her love for him would never change. Due to added responsibilities of the new family, she finds difficult to cope up with the work pressure at the office and is forced to give up the job and leave the city as well as her soul mate for good. Luck strikes again. Raj and Anjali establish contact after a long interval. But it does not last long. She with her spouse returns to start business in the city. Their business fails and they leave the city never to return. Raj is clueless about her whereabouts. Raj, at the fag years of his life and still madly in love with Anjali cannot tolerate the absence of his loved one and finds himself irreconcilable. He loses the desire to live and tries to end his life. But life does not oblige him. He hopes to meet one day his Anjali in whom he had found a sublime love, inspiration and completeness of life. He has come across a number of women in his life, but no one could surpass that ordinary looking and dark-complexioned lady called Anjali. His love for her just refuses to wither with age. Finally, his hopes start fading like his age. But his life lingers on without his love…