To account for happenings of the natural world around, people crafted tales. Oftentimes subjective, in the sense that the same happenings were talked about, through stories with varied skeletal frameworks, in different cultures around the globe, these auditory tales acquired diverse facets, predominantly factored by perceptibility.
Raoâs title grabs your attention before anything else can âitâs the choice of the phrase âlady doctorsâ instead of the increasingly used term âwomen in medicineâ. The title is a surprisingly apt presentation of the book â ironic, in the sense that a term that was widely used is rooted in a history of sexism and misogyny, while also unsettling, knowing that it is still predominantly used to refer to female gynaecologists.Â
If there were ever a shufti for verses that could inveigh conflictive colonial fracas like fulminate from fired fusillade and words that could bespeak the horror of a mutiny, like what ensued in the India of 1857, one need not venture beyond Tennysonâs âthe Defence of Lucknowâ.
Writing a conclusion to a trilogy is a tough job, youâve run out of the big reveals and confrontations, and youâve got to meet the audienceâs high expectations but Kasi makes it look like a walk in the park. The story of Ved and Samantha, the third book in the Simha University series, is by far one of her best works. Despite it having all the tropes that couldâve made it another run-of-the-mill college romance, Kasi, in her unique characteristic style, weaves a story about two flawed people that come together to bring out the best in each other. Ved and Samantha are more than just mush, steam and clichĂ©s â theyâre living, breathing characters that evolve. You feel their hate and the insecurities and pain behind the hate but you also feel the naĂŻve longing for love, a nascent need for support and the undeniable urge to bloom. You traverse this path with them - from seeing them at their worst and hating what you see because you know youâve felt that way to cheering for them as they reach the end of their arch to emerge as stronger, better humans. The book deals with forgiveness in different relationships and raises the inevitable question â how do you forgive when youâre hurt? Kasi leaves you with a sense of remembrance, a taste of nostalgia and a little smile on your face as you bid these characters adieu because they arenât just the cast of a book you read, theyâre a little bit of you.
