Sunday 30 December 2012

A Decade and counting - My entry for the Get Published contest


What is Love?

Well! Love is lust. That’s it.

Love is looking at a person and knowing that I want to spend the rest of my life with her” (Suspiciously familiar ! Film- lifted I suppose)

Love is for losers man!

Love is that beautiful feeling that builds in a person … and on …and on … continues for another hour” 

Some say love happens at first sight. Some say love develops from friendship. Some don’t believe in love at all. Some say love is only infatuation. It just arises from the need to have somebody to call your own, to take to the movies, to go out for dinner, or to talk to when you are down.

This is a story that spans nearly over a decade. A friendship that was made from school to college and then work , a series of fortunate and unfortunate events made some relationships even more stronger while others turned threadbare.

They were 6 friends.

They had nothing in common except that they had joined the same high school. Starting off with an awkward “Hello”, none of them knew that the friendship they were forging would be the pinnacle of all their forthcoming endeavors. They shared the same desk , ate the same food, slept over at each others’ houses, made a zillion Maggis to extinguish inconceivable hunger, drove the boys and the teachers insane in equal measures.

There was nothing that they hadn't done. And if they hadn't done it, they just didn't know it.

If they ever fought, it would be over the last morsel of mouth-watering biryani or who had to pay the ice-cream man.

Who knew that there was a bigger villain coming to turn their world upside down .

A villain called Love.


A love triangle that threatened to break a friendship that was the envy of all and sundry, read this ordinary story of a set of friends, caught between friendship and love,between family and friends and between betrayal and commitment.

If you like this story, please vote for it here at http://www.indiblogger.in/getpublished/idea/369/

 This is my entry for the HarperCollins–IndiBlogger Get Published contest, which is run with inputs fromYashodhara Lal and HarperCollins India.