Book Title: NAVARASA
Author: Vinaya Patil
Format: Paper Back
Total Number of Pages: 100
Language: English
Publisher: HALF BAKED BEAN
Publishing Date: 4 June 2018
ASIN: B07DHB2256
Know your Rasa while you enjoy reading a story about it. From the butterflies you feel in your stomach when you fall in love to the spine chilling horror, this book has it all. Denials, acceptance, adventure, anger, humor, you will experience the different flavors when you read the nine (nava) rasa stories. A love story on kindle, a girl who hates to fly, a boy full of wonder, an adventurous and brave brother, an iron cored girl with goals, a loving Grand Pa and a story around his tea estate, a haughty landlord, a taxi ride and a woman’s struggle make up for a wide variety of reading.
MY TAKE
Starting from the cover of the book is simple and yet beautiful with nine different rasa emoji in red color background. The title of the book "Navarasa" Nava - nine and Rasa - emotions means nine emotions.
The book is a collection of short stories based on nine navarasa. The nine emotions included in Navarasa are:-
- Shringara (love, devotion, beauty)
- Hasya (Joy, humor, sarcasm)
- Adbutha (wonder, mystery, curiosity),
- Veera (courage, confidence, pride),
- Shanta (peace, relaxation, calmness)
- Karuna (sadness, compassion, pity),
- Raudra (anger, irritation, violence),
- Bhayanaka (Horror, anxiety, worry),
- Bhibathsa (disgust, depression, self-pity)
These are the emotions that humans show according to the situations. My love for you, Take Off, In the eyes of wonder, A Knock at the door, the damned bridge, Nancy’s Haven, A wash away story, girl in the back seat, when I wake up are some short stories author had penned down based on these emotions. Every page is loaded with emotions and twists.
Grandpa Henry from Nancy’s Heaven was my favorite character in the book. Take Off! It’s one of the funniest stories in the book. The protagonist Manasi dislikes kids and hate flying. Manasi colleague Arunima inivited her to celebrate New Year Eve Party at Chennai. Aravind (Arunima’s brother) is also coming from US to attend the party so Manasi decides to use the opportunity to meet him. She had a crush on him. Arunima requests Manasi to take her darling daughter Shaina with her in the plane. Shaina was very naughty. The plane and airport journey in the book was amusing.
Language is simple and lucid to read and connect with the story and being engaged throughout the story. The style of narration and the pace are perfect. The author has portrayed each and every character with utmost significance of their own and every one of them has done justice to their respective roles throughout the story.
Looking forward to read more works by the author.
I’ll recommend this book to all readers.
Overall Ratings 5/5 Stars
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About the Author
Vinaya Patil is a passionate IT professional who chose to write when she decided to take a break from her well established IT career. She resigned the much sought after Fortune 500 company to explore her creative side in writing and drafted her first book ‘One Life to Love’, a young adult fiction which was published by Rupa Publications in 2014.
‘One Life to Love’ was very well received and been reviewed by various forums such as Bookgeeks, Asian Age, Aaj Tak and Women’s Era. She has been interviewed by newspapers such as Deccan Chronicle and The Hindu. She was also interviewed on Bangalore Radio Fever 104 on Mad mornings. Vinaya also has had a stint with Theatre and worked with Theatre Groups such as Evam and Red Pill before she moved to US where she lived for two years. More recently Vinaya has been helping a start-up company and is the Head of its Operations.
Vinaya is also an avid reader, spiritual follower and a random scribbler.
