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Book Review: I Too Had a Love Story

It is the first and the best book of Ravinder Singh, which made him the darling of the millions and established him as India’s most popular romance writer. If you love to read mushy romance, this book is definitely for you.

Author:  Ravinder Singh Pages: 206 Stars: 3 stars

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‘I Too Had a Love Story’ is a memoir of a courtship that didn’t reach its ultimate destination – marriage. The so-called true love story of Ravinder Singh, who debuted in the world of storytelling through this novel, is written in a diary-writing form that is innocent, touching, honest and heart-rending.

The narration style is amateurish but pleasant and fresh. The story begins with Ravin (Ravinder Singh, the author himself) deciding to marry and registering himself at a matrimonial website. His search for a suitable profile ends at Khushi, a Punjabi girl, whom he tries to contact and after some struggle (as you must have seen in a Bollywood movie) finally he is able to contact her.

After a series of SMSs, chit-chats, question-answers, family discussions; eventually they start to like then love each other. Everything goes well: talking over the phone, care and concern, family consent and then the engagement; their love script seems to be written by the God of love.

But the time when you start to enjoy their chemistry and love, and hope to see them united with the bond of marriage; there comes the heartbreak that no reader would have expected.

Can Love Happen Twice? and Like it happened yesterday are other two novels by Ravinder Singh.

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I too had a love story Review | Ravinder Singh | book review | Summary

Introduction.

I too had a love story is a very famous book of Ravinderpal Singh. Ravinder Singh is an Indian author and software engineer. This was the debut book of the author. This book is an autobiography. Which is Ravinder  Singh’s own.  It has the character of two people, one is Ravin and one is his girlfriend. Ravinder himself likes to call Ravin from his friends as shown in this book. So let’s get to know about this true love story. ( I too had a love story review )

Some lines of Ravinder, before reading further.

Days pass by somehow But nights now are a wagon of pain Injuries may heal with time But marks will always remain Restless on my comfortable bed I toss and turn and try to sleep But thoughts are bulking my head And have formed a huge heap The past is flashing its scorching light-beams Tearing me apart, breaking me at the seams The darkness of my life, is more visible in the dark And now I am trying to give it a voice, trying to speak my heart.

This book starts with a reunion of 4 friends. Ravin, Manpreet, Amardeep and Happy.  After four years they meet each other, then get a plan to visit Kolkata city. There, they roams many places all day. And at night, they plan to go to a secret place. That place was the bank of the Hooghly River. Which was far from the city. They stay there till midnight and enjoy talking to each other. The related topic comes out from the same life, and everyone starts talking. And there is also the topic of marriage. And Happy starts asking questions about marriage to Ravin. After answering all the questions, everyone takes a little time and enjoys life. And on the second day everyone has to go to their respective cities.

Happy suggests Ravin to shaadi.com. The previous day when he was on the banks of river Hooghly. On the second day Ravin also goes to his city Bhubaneswar. He remembers the words of Happy and he registers in Shaadi.com. Even after seeing the profiles of many strange people, he do not like it. Which he likes, she doesn’t like him. It gives him a lot of disappointment. One day when he is talking to one of his clients in the office, he gets a message from someone.

Message belongs to a girl from Shaadi.com. it’s khushi. their talk starts there. In the first call, they have come to know a lot of each other. Gradually they come very close to each other. they became close friends. And both are addresses that have a lot of similarities in them. They used to talk to each other only on the phone. They had never met each other. But their love story had started.

Talking to each other for a long time, they found that they have started loving each other. It was a little strange for them that they started loving each other without seeing them. One day while talking to khushi, Ravin told khushi that he would have to go to U.S because of her office work. khushi did not understand how she would be without Ravin for 1 month. Ravin then told her that he would come to Delhi a day earlier and meet her. And he will be with her and her family all day.

And after a few days he leaves for Delhi. Khushi is going to take Ravin to Delhi airport. As soon as he lands at the airport. His eyes start searching for khushi. After searching 15 minutes, he gets khushi’s call. They meet each other. Go to the hotel. That situation is very strange because of meeting her for the first time. After spending the whole day with khushi and her family, he leaves for New York the next day.

Even while living in New York, he stays in touch with khushi. After spending a month in New York, he is back. And once again he is with khushi. And on the second day he goes to his home in Bhubaneswar. After a few days khushi’s parents go to Bhubaneswar to meet Ravin’s parents and they fix their engagement there. Their engagement is fixed on 14 february. And both also want the same. After that her parents go back to Faridabad.

Khushi is overjoyed to hear the engagement and starts dancing like crazy. khushi’s call comes to Ravin two days before the engagement. But khushi is not her brother-in-law is in that call. Ravin asks how do you have her phone. Then he knows that khushi has an accident. She is very serious. And is in ICU. Ravin gets tremble about this. And by next flight leaves for Faridabad.  When he sees her, he starts shaking like leaves. She was so beautiful And now her face was broken. Her frown was broken. Blood had accumulated in her brain. And there were multiple fractures in the body. Ravin’s tears were not stopping seeing her.

Ravin has to go home to get his parent. When he arrives in a bus to reach his home from bhubaneswar. Then he gets a call from khushi’s father. He picks up. And her father says, son khushi is no more.

After all this, Ravin is broken. His life is meaningless. He doesn’t mind anything. He think. she died, i survived. because i survived i die everyday.

One day Ravin is sitting in the park. A girl is seen playing seesaw. Suddenly she falls down, Ravin goes to her and take her up. And asks her, what is your name. She says, khushi. He tells her, Nice name and goes from there.

And the book ends like this.

Some important quotes we all need to know..

“Not everyone in this world has the fate to cherish the fullest form of love. some are born ,just to experience the abbreviation of it.” (I too had a love story review) I too had a love story

“Forget what others think when you wish to dance in the rain. Just do it. It’s your moment. It’s your happiness.” (I too had a love story review) I too had a love story

“People love happy endings. But not every story has a happy ending. And such stories are mostly forgotten with the thought that sadness is a part of life. Happy stories give hope and sad stories show us the mirror.” I too had a love story

“Someone rightly said, ‘Three things – wealth, women and …’ (I always forget the third one) can make anything happen in this world.” (I too had a love story review) I too had a love story

Insight/Review

Ahh.. what can I say. I liked this book so much that I cannot tell. Perhaps I was able to relate my life with Ravin, that’s why. Love has been told so beautifully in this book and Pain has been told equally well. And I did not expect end like this. And this is what makes this book different from others. I would like to say one thing that if you have just had a breakup. So I will not suggest to read this book. Because you will not be able to stop you from crying.

The character development of all in this book was quite good. The language of this book was also very simple. More hard English has not been used in this book. The start and ending of the story was magnificent. The last chapter was very impactful. It was admirable.

We always think of happy ending. But this is not always the case. It has shown well in this book. If all you want is a light read that takes you through the bittersweet experiences of first love And love story, then this book is for you. Has described the emotions very well. truly, not everyone in this world has the fate to cherish the fullest form or love. Simple, honest, heart touching true love story.

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I strongly recommend, everyone should read this book., i too had a love story review.

ABOUT THE Author

Ravinder Singh is an Indian author and software engineer. a bestselling Indian author of nine novels

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I Too Had a Love Story

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I too had a love story by ravinder singh: book review.

  A Beating Heart for an Everlasting Love

I too had a love story, is one of those novels that will remind you of all the times you’ve spent watching movies that held the tales of love and emotions. As the name suggests, this is a love story but of course, not an ordinary one.

What’s impressive about this love story is that it doesn’t contain some sugar and spice, but a lot more than that. It’s about the simplicity of love, about pure and innocent emotions a person goes through when in love.

It’s about two strangers, the main characters, Ravin and Khushi. They both meet each other on a matrimonial site. And from there, they fall in love with each other establishing a soft feeling of adoration for the novel in the reader’s heart.

This story isn’t the one where love happens at first sight. But, it is about love happening on the first phone call. It is a tender and heartfelt, real-life story of the author Ravinder Singh who poured his heart out for love.

We get to know love from his perspective. We unravel that even if complicated, love stands out. Revolving around love and sacrifice, the story of I too Had a Love Story will take you on a roller-coaster ride.

It will touch the vastness of Indian cultures with development of characters beautifully. Being a real story it will make you smile at some points and other times will leave you in tears. This story will break your heart but at the same time will be an absolutely breathtaking read.

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Introduction to the Author: Ravinder Singh

I Too Had a Love Story is an English autobiographical novel written by Ravinder Singh. It is the debut novel of the author. The book was first published in 2008 by Srishti Publishers and in 2012 republished by Penguin India.  

Ravinder Singh was born on 4th February 1982 in a Sikh family in Burla, Odisha. He is a software engineer and a bestselling Indian author today.  After having spent most of his life in Burla, Ravinder is currently based in New Delhi. He has also started a publishing venture called Black Ink, to publish debut authors. Beyond his love for words, Ravinder is a fitness freak. 

Some of his other novels are: 

• I Too Had A Love Story(2007)
• Can love happen twice? (2011)
• Love Stories That Touched My Heart (2012)
• Like it Happened Yesterday (2013)
• Your Dreams Are Mine Now (2014)
• Tell me a Story (2015)
• This Love That Feels Right (2016)
• Will You Still Love Me (2018)

“After the unfortunate incident, I was looking for a reason to live. And I started to pen down the moments I had been through.” “I can’t deny that. I had to go back in time, close my eyes, relive the moments, tears rolled down and I wrote the words.” — Ravinder Singh on a launch event of I Too Had a Love Story. 

This book was published in 2008, but it still continues to be loved by everyone and when read still strikes the chords.

I Too Had a Love Story Book Review

Have you ever acknowledged a story so simple yet the one that stood with you forever? The one that has its ups and downs but those complications are nothing because love exists till the very end?

Do you want to read something that holds the innocence of love? But yet powerfully depicts how even if simple, love will stay forever with you. Love will keep your hands till the very end if you selflessly love someone.

This is the story told from the perspective of Ravin, a software engineer. He ends up joining one of those matrimonial sites where he meets his soulmate Khushi. Khushi also happens to have the same profession and goals like that for Ravin. They both talk as strangers and later as the book continues, they fall in love, but? And the sentence after that but is something you will have to find out on your own. 

As it’s the real-life story of Ravinder Singh, most of the times you’ll find yourself all lost in it. You’ll know it is real yet you’ll wish it wasn’t.

The amazing thing about the story is that it’s not written in dramatic form. It is not the kind that will give you shocks after every page turn. Yet it is the kind that you will want to read till the very end.

Expect pure emotions, the awkwardness of two strangers falling in love. The youth of two love birds and the reality of life in the few hundred pages of I too had a love story.

Beginning of Love

The story begins with the friends-reunion. Ravin and his three male friends, namely Manpreet, Amardeep, Happy meet after a very long time. They all happen to be college days best friends & were now meeting in Kolkata for the first time after ending college.

As we read ahead, we watch Ravin remembering his time at college. How he met these friends as a stranger and now, how they all mean so much to him.

When they all finally meet, nostalgia kicks in, and they all spend time remembering memories. The moments they have lived together as friends. Sharing secrets, leg-pulling and knowing what is happening is everyone’s now live.

That is how they were spending all time when out of nowhere the talk took the turn towards seriousness. About life, about what’s next? And exploring these topics, they all landed on marriage. How will they find the perfect partner in this messed up world? How will they know that she’s the one? Love marriage or arranged? What kind of girl? 

As time passed their topic shifted on the different matrimonial sites that exist in today’s internet world. The maturity and sensibility that the four of them show here are what makes you want to connect to them. They make fun of each other still within those moments they discuss life. 

Pondering over these thoughts, Ravin finally joins one of the matrimonial sites. He scrolls through the faces, likes them and from there his journey of meeting Khushi begins. Now, the question remains who makes the first move and how it all turns out? What makes them like each other on the very first call? And how do they eventually fall in love? 

Why I too had a love story?

The question that is bound to pop inside your head is what the story is behind the title? Why should you read this when it has such a cliche title? What’s so good about the story that it still happens to be the novel, many love?

Well, the answer to this is, because it’s about the simplicity of love. I too had a love story is one of those novels where the author was successful in making readers able to understand the depth of the word, relationship.

The story contains Khushi and Ravin’s lively conversations they spend typing into love. Feelings and emotions. It has tears and smiles they shared. It holds the throbbing curiosity they have to meet each other for the first time.

You may know the pain of a long-distance relationship. If not, try it someday. And, the consistent feeling of holding hands for once. The impatience of waiting for phone calls, little surprise gifts and late-night conversations. And the gorgeousness of pure love makes it a read-till-finish book.

This story touches the concept of long-distance relationships in a wonderful way. Like how it is so difficult in today’s world when mostly all couples are far away from each other. How do they communicate? How do they make each other feel loved? The humour they share to make each other laugh even when away.

The journey Khushi and Ravin go through until they finally meet each other face-to-face is adorable. And what happens after they finally meet? The story touches emotions and feelings on a different level and keeps the reader hooked. And lastly, how the author has described the thoughts he used to go through is heartfelt.

Pain or Happiness?

Even though this may sound cliche to you, yet this is one of those stories that will stay with you. It has many normal simple things happening around but still, it has the beauty in those little things that you will love later.

I cannot talk about the ending but you should know that it will leave you either heartbroken or with contentment. In the end, it will make you want to understand life. Every love story has a cliche attached to it but still, each one of them holds a sense of warmth and compassion.

After Khushi, the female lead and Ravin male lead meet, the story takes a different turn. Not like until now when we saw them only talking on a call, now they are together. It makes the reader feel the enthusiasm and delight for Khushi and Ravin.

The story takes a disastrous turn after the few 100 pages. And that is where the story takes a new road. What could go wrong when they both loved each other so much? What happened to them? What happened to love? Will it leave you in pain or happiness?

The best thing is that it is a real story about the author himself and so it is bound to have the rugged touch of happiness and grief. You will feel the writer in every part of the story. And yes, if you want something light yet intense to read then this the best book to pick.

What I like the most in I too Had a Love Story

I too had a love story, is a simple yet capturing tale without lavish or extravagant stuff. I loved many things about this novel. The writing style being the first, the author has used free simple words.

 He has not tried to express things by using big words or adjectives. Yet the story has a fantastic feel-good experience. Even with simple words, the author has bestowed the reader with intense emotions.

The writing feels real as if the author is himself narrating everything sitting beside you. You could feel what the characters are going through. You relate to them, understand them and sense their sentiments. 

The little part where the Indian’s life is flashed, digs out the understanding of a girl’s life when she is getting married and leaving her home for an another one.

The character growth is also something that keeps the reader intrigued. The way Khushi and Ravin grow as characters throughout the story is impressive. Both the characters even though have certain differences of opinions show understanding. 

Another thing that impressed me is the depiction of long-distance relationships. And the emotions both Khushi and Ravin went through when they met for the very first time. The author has succeeded in making the reader feel what he would have felt during those days.

What I didn’t like

The story overall was phenomenal, yet it could have certain flaws attached to it. There were things I did not like as a reader but this is just my opinion and we all are meant to differ sometimes. 

The story connects us to the friends of Ravin in the beginning during their reunion. But later as it moves ahead we are nowhere told about these people.

We don’t get to see more of them. Ravin mentions that he told his friends about joining a matrimonial site but that’s it. We don’t get to see their reaction or what they said. Later also as the story proceeds, the author does not show any contact he had with those friends. 

Another thing I, as a reader, did not like, was that we are not told how exactly Ravin and Khushi fall in love. We know the after story but no mention of what were those little things that made them fall in love in the first place. What did they talk about at the beginning of their relationship?

At some point, the story looked fictional or dramatic due to the incidents that happened, but it is based on a real story. And, when you realise that, you can do nothing but think what the author must have gone through.

The story moves forward at a good pace, but certain things might make you want to have more moments of the characters spend together. But still at last, whatever the story held, keeping the little flaws aside, it is a beautiful tale of love.  

Conclusion of I too had a Love Story: 

“Not everyone in this world has the fate to cherish the fullest form of love. Some are born, just to experience the abbreviation of it.” – Ravinder Singh, I Too Had A Love Story

At last, I would only say that this story has an essence of hope and optimism mixed with it. As we follow Ravin’s journey of meeting Khushi, we find happiness along the way.

We go through thousands of emotions, ranging from enthusiasm to elation, from contentment to devastation. And finally a sense of calmness, and we see it all through Ravin’s eyes. I too had a Love Story will always stand with you during emotions of life and love, victory and defeat.

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Book Review of I Too Had a Love Story by Ravinder Singh

Book Review of ‘I Too Had a Love Story’ by Ravinder Singh

Book Review: This beautiful novel ‘I too had a love story’ is written by Ravinder Singh as his debut novel. The novel is a description of what actually happened in his life. As an author he didn’t need to think of a story line but remember all the incidents. In an interview he said that it would have been easier if it was thinking of a new story because it was far more painful for him to recall what all happened in the past. The story starts with a romantic set but the way it flows into an emotional one draws the reader into it. The use of words is just right to make the reader feel what the author wanted.

The story has scenes of reunion of the college students, bachelor talks, falling in love, finding a soul mate and then losing the same in an accident. A perfect bond is shown between the college friends that usually is found in real life too. Not being able to meet for quite long and the excitement of meeting is so genuine that the reader finds it relatable. Also having bachelor talks and that too accompanied with thoughts and advices for marriage are common too during such college reunions. Then the story has a starting of a long distance relationship which started from a matrimonial site which is quite acceptable. The protagonist falls in love with the heroine of the novel and they have those little moments. But the reader sometimes might feel the moments resembling some of those of the Bollywood movies. Over exaggeration could also be felt in the romantic part though that’s what some readers might like about this novel. The journey of falling in love to accepting the person as a soul mate and then to proposing the parents for marriage is described just perfectly. All the incidents actually take place in a normal person’s life when he encounters this situation. Though when everything was perfect, an accident occurred and the heroine of the novel got badly hurt. The reaction of the family of the heroine as well as the protagonist was quite genuine. The way the hero got worried and what his actions were could be felt by the readers. Ultimately in the end the heroine died and the world of hero got shattered. The description of the condition after her death might bring tear rolling down from eyes of many readers.

This novel can be described as a roller coaster of emotions with happiness of reunion to the romance of meeting the love and then to sorrow of losing one’s to be fiancé. Ending of this novel is not satisfactory and the reader might feel whether the hero would fall in love again or live the rest of his life with only Khushi’s memories. All in all this is a really interesting novel for those readers who love the taste of romance.

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Let us explore “I too had a love story”

Many people do fall in love with more desires and in order to have more crisps and excitement in their life and in their relationship. As anyone could not pre-judge their lives, the same thing happens in love. Things may happen beyond their imaginary life and sometimes might not. And such a story named “I too had a love story” is here for you…!

Currently, we’re in the modern era, where we can access many things across the world, being in the place. Today we’re making chats, voice calls, video calls to any nook and corner of the world. In simple terms, we can say that our mode of communication has become easier. So, making relationships is not such a big deal…!

 People started searching their life partners, even dating partners online. Though making relationships through the internet has been seen as cultural taboo in some places, but still, it’s not something new to us. Because most of them had succeeded in their love as well as life. With this, we could not conclude that every love story has a happy and successful ending.

Still, there are many love stories that have a happy beginning, ending with a tragic one. Relationship breakups are not only due to misunderstanding, ego, dislike of character . Sometimes, it’s all about circumstances, especially fate. If you are eager to know about the love story ended, only because of fate. This is the book which tells us a love story which, has a tragic end.

I too had a love story written by  Ravinder Singh, which was published in 2008. This book is the debut book for this author and it holds India’s bestseller title. This is the true and unforgettable memory of the author, Ravinder Singh.

The two protagonists of this story are Ravinder Singh and Khushi . The Story begins with a reunion of Ravinder Singh and his few friends in Kolkata. They were sharing their past memories and made fun out of this with each other. But Ravinder didn’t realize that this conversation would let him enter into his new life. The story is all about the love relationship between Ravinder Singh and Khushi, which has a wonderful start but with an unbearable ending.

You might have had a relationship in the past or still in the present, but I am sure that this book will make you look back on your memories associated with your love. No issues if you aren’t in love before, then this book will make you feel and think, “ What is love? ” and it may kindle you to love someone truly.

You all can think that, when people meet and share their feelings with each other, all of a sudden it turns into love. But never..!. There are many ways that your loved ones can stick into your heart, and thus becomes love. This might happen at their first sight, appearance, or by their character and attitude. Every love story will have a different start. But there is some rare love which even started without knowing their face, character. This kind of love can be experienced in this book.

While reading this book, I remembered one of the famous quotes about love, “Love defies all reasons, has no eyes. But love is not blind”. Exactly this quote matches with the beginning of the story.  

There is a scenario, intimate conversation between Ravinder Singh and Khushi in a hotel, which keeps the readers more interested. Likewise, there are many plots that make you feel better while reading this book.

” I too had a love story ” keeps you in a different mood while reading. At the beginning stage of the story, you can feel more surprising starts. In the middle part, you can feel more excited about narration and lovely plots. And at the end of the story, you will feel more opposite to the start and middle part of the story, which has an unimaginable end.

The author narrates this story in very simple English, as to make the reading easier and to imbibe the feel of love. The language used in this story is quite easy for a beginner reader to understand clearly what the author tries to tell. 

Basically, many good readers suggest a love story book for beginners to read. Because this makes the reader more interested in reading books. This book is one among this category and gives you a clear experience about the love relationship with a tragic end.

If you are new to reading books, then ” I too had a love story ” is the right book for you. This book will make you feel comfortable while reading it. The vocabularies used in this book are very simple and easy to understand by the beginners.

Even though the book was published in 2008, the love story of this book will never make you feel bored while reading. 

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I Too Had A Love Story – Ravinder Singh

I Too Had A Love Story book review  –

Ravinder   is  the male lead or the  protagonist  of the  story .  He is  working  in an IT software company.  The  story   starts  with  Ravin   meeting  his three college friends Happy,  Manpreet  and  Amardeep  after a  really   long  time at Kolkata.  They  talk  about   love ,  marriage  and settling down in  life .

Happy suggests signing up in a matrimonial website, and finding a suitable girl through that.  Although  Ravin  never showed much interest while  he   heard  it,  he   was  the first one to sign up in an online  matrimonial  website, once  he   returned back  to  Bhubaneswar .   He   finds   Khushi  from shaadi.com.

Khushi   is  the female lead of the  story .  She  is  a very simple yet a  beautiful  girl.   Khushi  values her relations a-lot and  is  a  very good person. Khushi tends to find joy in the simplest of things. She  lives  at Delhi with her  family .   Khushi  and  Ravin  start to  talk  and  they   find   a lot   similarities  in them.   They   are as alike as two peas  in a pod.   They  eventually fall in love even before  seeing  each other.  As time passes by  they  grow  very   close .  

Ravin gets an offer to go abroad for an office project. He comes to Delhi to take the international flight to the United States. Ravin plans to stay at Delhi for a day to meet Khushi for the very first time and to spend time with her. He meets Khushi’s family too. Despite of the distance and the time difference, Ravin and Khushi’s bond stayed strong. When he returns back to Delhi, both the families meet at Ravin’s place and fix their engagement date.

Khushi gets very hyped up and enthusiastic before their engagement, but a few hours before the engagement a huge tragedy falls upon Khushi. Ravin prays to god with his whole heart. All their dreams shattered, without Khushi, Ravin’s life becomes meaningless. Will Ravin ever get Khushi back?

“She died . I survived because I survived , I die everyday .”  

― Ravinder Singh , I Too Had A Love Story .

I Too Had A Love Story is written by Ravinder Singh. It is his Debut novel. He is a software engineer turned author. Unfortunately, It is a true story and that is maybe why the author uses his name for the protagonist of the story. I Too Had A Love Story remained as bestseller even after six years of publication.

I Too Had A Love Story has a predictable plot and we can learn from the Blurb behind the book that Khushi dies at the end, but this novel is not about the plot but the feel you get, when you know it.  

I would have enjoyed the book more if the quality of English written in was better. They were more or like movie dialogues. Words were  repetitive. Sometimes I had to skip lines to get going ahead. Basically it was a good story with average writing skills. It was also hard to believe the Indian parents easily accepted their love without any problem. She being a Punjabi unlike them would have created issues in the sad reality.

What I liked about I Too Had A Love Story

I Too Had A Love Story got me very sad as it was a true story. I realized that a person can mean so much suddenly and in their absence we tend to forget how to live life like we did before. Their love story was a very cute one and it was depressing to have such a tragic ending. Life can be cruel at times and one such example was Ravinder’s love story.

I Too Had A Love Story is an easy to read book, you can read it on a lazy Sunday afternoon in a single sitting. It might make you cry, if you are a   very emotional person. It is certain to leave a hole in your heart because of Khushi. Khushi never deserved it. Ravin never deserved it.  

Best quote from I Too Had A Love Story

“Not everyone in this world has the fate to cherish the fullest form of love. Some are born ,just to experience the abbreviation of it.”  

― Ravinder Singh , I Too Had A Love Story.

TITLE-  I Too Had A Love Story

AUTHOR – Ravinder Singh

PUBLISHER – Srishti publishers, Penguin India.

ORIGINALY PUBLISHED – 2008

GENRE –  Novel

PAGE COUNT –   256 pages

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About the Book

• Written by: Ravinder Singh
• Genre: Love, Auto-Biography
• Originally Published:  2008
• No. of Chapters:  9
• No. of Pages: 256
• Price: Nepali Rupees 320

I too had a love story. It is a story about love and loss, it is a story about finding and losing one of the most precious things that one can gain – Love. This book follows the heartbreaking autobiography of the Author, Ravindra Singh himself, and tugs the heartstrings of those who read his words. The language is simple and there is not much reading between the lines and that is one of the reasons why this piece of art is such a beautiful one. First published in 2008, it was the debut book of Ravindra Singh and it became an instant bestseller and remained a best-seller till 2014. He retells and remembers the time of his first love and how it all happened, the sweet times as well as the bitter times. This book makes the reader smile and cry in one go and is something that not every book can do. The author has described the instances of his personal life in the story.

Being a love story, the genre seems very interesting and appealing to many youngsters who have experienced the essence of love and relationships in their lives and those who have sacrificed something for other’s happiness. -Sabrina Kapoor (The viewspaper) Sponsored

Plot Summary

Ravin is our usual happy go lucky guy who has not yet tasted the flavor of the first love. He is in his mid 20’s and is just focusing on his career for the time being and is nothing extraordinary in any way besides the fact that he gets along with everyone a bit too well. Our story starts with the reunion of four college friends, Ravin, Manpreet (MP), Amardeep (Swamiji), and Happy who used to study in the same college and used to be the besties of the hostel, a bit rowdy and studious as well.

During the reunion, they talk about the future plans, and in that plan comes the talk of marriage which none of them had thought about till that point. Happy then suggests Ravin join shaadi.com and basically be the scapegoat for all of them to test the site out and Ravin seeing that there were no issues in trying to agree.

Now Ravin comes back to the Bhubaneshwar where his office is located and while going through his days, he thinks might as well apply for the site. He does not have any expectations at this point in time so it was just to kill boredom maybe? Well to his surprise, he finds someone who catches his attention, a girl named Khushi and they start talking to each other. Soon they find out that both of them have a lot in common with each other than they had initially thought and during this process of talking, both of them exchange their contacts with each other and talk a lot as well. This is where the love begins for both of them, the start of the story “I too had a love story”

After a few months of chatting and talking, both of them realize what was already there and admit to themselves as well but one thing remains to confirm that feeling of love, that is to meet in person. So far due to the distance between them of both time and place, they had not gotten a chance to meet in person and neither knew that a person could have two personas, one for online and one for reality so both of them had to verify that. They meet rather soon after the realization, as well as the chance, allows them to spend some time with each other. Ravin is asked to travel to the USA for the office but to reach there, one has to get on an international flight- Delhi, where Khushi lives.

There Ravin meets Khushi and her family for the first time and soon the talk of their engagement begins after Ravin leaves for the USA. Both of them stay in contact with each other and even have some minor fights but in the end, both of their love wins over those small fights, or rather those small fights make their love stronger as time passes.

Their families, knowing that it was inevitable that both of them will have to get married one time or another, soon fixes the engagement. The engagement date is set in Feb 14-2007 and this was sort of Khushi’s wish as well for she wanted to become his girlfriend and fiance both on the day of love. While both knew their love for one another and the families agreed to them as well, none of them had confessed so this would be an official confession as well.

Then the tragedy strikes. Khushi meets with an accident and is sent to the hospital with a critical emergency. Ravin rushes to the hospital in shock and he does what any guy whose love has been critically hospitalized would do; pray. This part is the most heartbreaking as the lines were written here are truly sad and simple. She dies in the end and the story ends with Ravin saying how mentally destroyed he is. There is a syndrome called “survivor’s guilt syndrome” and that eats away at Ravin each day for the rest of the days.

Lessons Learned from the Book

• This book deals with the tragedy of loss and how one small thing can affect someone so much that it destroys them.
• The main lesson is that “enjoy everything while it lasts as there is no guarantee that it will last forever and if you can, save the ones precious to you”.
• One of the side lessons is that “you cannot prepare for every situation but you can at least try”.This message in itself is cynical and cold but the last few words in the story say this a bit clearer and in a good way as well with those words being
• “She died. I survived. Because I survived, I die every day.” which also shows how the “survivor’s guilt syndrome affects a person

Best Part of the Book

• The best part of the book is the use of language and the words which make every chapter enjoyable.
• The expressions that the author uses are simple and practical without the use of vulgarity that is used in everyday life.
• The way the emotions are presented both bright ones and the dark ones seem like the author is speaking to the reader, making it feel like he is breaking the fourth wall without doing it in the first place.

Worst Part of the book

There are not many bad things to say about this book besides that the ending seems a bit rushed. Now it is understandable that the author may not be in the state to express his suffering and the way it felt to lose his love as it would mean he would have to relive that painful moment again and again till he finished the book so there are not many complaints.

In my personal opinion, this book is great in every way. Be it the purity of the emotions expressed or the simplicity of the language or the way it connects us with the author, it just feels great and the passing of time will quicken. When I first read the book, I cried near the ending and after the book, each time I remembered those words, I felt that lump again so I advise the ones who haven’t read this book to grab a few tissues before you begin. I would recommend anyone and everyone to give this book a read.

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“ I too had a love story ” written by Ravinder Singh is a simple, honest, heart-touching true love story of Ravin & his girlfriend Khushi. So, let’s start book summary of “ I Too Had A Love Story “.

Reunion – I too had a love story

Ravin and his three friends talking, laughing, enjoying the night at the bay of river Hooghly in Kolkata. It was their reunion. After three years they were meeting.

While exploring their past memories they come across a point that sooner or later they have to marry. One of the three friends, Amardeep talked about the matrimonial website shaadi.com. After the reunion, they went to their respective workplaces.

One day when Ravin was checking his emails seen the advertisement for shaadi.com, a beautiful girl smiling and looking for her perfect match. Ravin clicked that ad and reached to a website and made his profile.

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One evening Ravin got the message from a girl Khushi that she wants to talk to him. Before dialing her number raving checked her profile. He called her and after an hour of talking, he realized that she was perfect for him.

Another step closer

They had also some common things between them like both were born in the month of February, both have a love for music and both studies CAT in same institutes at their respective cities. Finally, Ravin got his future soul met on shaadi.com. Khushi was also impressed by the way Ravin talked to her.

Day by day frequency of calling and time they spend talking with each other increased. They started knowing each other and also informed their parent about their affair.

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Face-to-Face

Even after three months, they hadn’t met face to face. Ravin’s US trip gave them this opportunity. Ravin was planned went to the US where he has to work for a one-month on-site project. His flight was from Delhi and he decided to meet Khushi as Faridabad was three hours from Delhi.

That day came when Ravin met Khushi. She was as beautiful as she looks in photographs. He also met her mother and sister. After meeting them he went to the US. It was a tough time for Khushi as she was not able to talk to him because of his busy and hectic schedule. In that month Khushi missed him a lot.

Finally after completing his work Ravin booked a ticket for India. The next day airplane landed in Delhi where Khushi was waiting for him. He went to a hotel that was already booked by Khushi. After meeting Khushi and her family he went back to Bhubaneswar.

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Now the time came when they decided to take one step ahead in their relationship i.e marriage. Khushi’s father came to Faridabad for deciding a date for the engagement. After sorting things they decided that the ring ceremony be held on 14th February, a month later.

Both families started preparation for the day. A time came when only three days left for ring ceremony. Khushi went to her office to give application for leave. It was her last day of work.

The Unexpected

Unfortunately, while coming back from the office she met an accident. She moved to a local hospital. Ravin was shocked when he knew this news. Doctors put her in ICU as he got serious injuries to the brain. After two weeks of failed effort, all decided to move her to Apollo hospital in Delhi. This was the last hope for them.

In Apollo, there were some improvements but she was still in danger. Her blood pressure was constantly dropping. Despite all their efforts, they could not save her. Ravin’s Khushi was no more. Ravin was shocked as he lost her future soul mate.

With this, we came to the end of Ravinder Singh’s “ I Too Had A Love Story ” summary . I recommend you to read this true story.

What happened to Ravin after this incident? Did he marry another girl or remains single? Get all the answers from a sequel to this book “ Can Love Happen Twice summary ?”

Frequently Asked Questions

Is i too had a love story real.

Yes, I too had a love story is Ravinder Singh’s real love story. Ravinder Singh had written the book in memory of his girlfriend that he lost in an accident before his ring ceremony.

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Considered as the King of Romance, Ravinder Singh is a well-known bestselling author from India. An ISB alumnus and an ex Sr. Prog Manager at Microsoft, Ravinder once realized it's more fun writing stories than computer programmes. Now a full time storyteller, he has sold more than 3.5 million copies of his novels. He also runs a publishing venture called Black Ink, where he publishes debut authors.

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Hush-Money Trial Revives Doorman’s Trump-Love-Child Story

R emember the time Trump Tower doorman Dino Sajudin claimed Donald Trump had an affair with his former housekeeper that resulted in a secret love child? No?

Don’t worry: your memory is not broken. This salacious Trump gossip never gained much traction, partly because it’s probably untrue and partly because American Media Inc., parent company of The National Enquirer , allegedly helped Trump suppress it during his 2016 campaign.

Eight years later, this lesser-known Trump rumor is getting attention again thanks to the Trump hush money trial . It’s one example of a “catch and kill” deal that Manhattan prosecutors say AMI had with Trump to buy and suppress stories that could damage his presidential campaign. The alleged scheme was hatched during an August 2015 meeting in Trump Tower involving the candidate, his fixer-turned-nemesis Michael Cohen, and David Pecker, the former publisher of the Enquirer .

Lead prosecutor Matthew Colangelo cited the doorman story in his opening arguments on Monday. “It was the first time that David Pecker had every paid anyone for information about Donald Trump,” he told the jury. Kate Christobek of the New York Times observed : “Trump is visibly displeased at the mention of the alleged out-of-wedlock child and strongly shakes his head.” Then after Trump’s defense attorney Todd Blanche spoke, Pecker was called as the first witness .

The Manhattan district attorney’s office cited it last April when they indicted Trump on 34 counts of falsifying business records for allegedly paying off Stormy Daniels and disgusting the hush money. In an accompanying statement of facts , prosecutors described the doorman’s story (along with Playboy model Karen McDougal claim that she had an affair with Trump) to establish a pattern of behavior by the Enquirer . The statement reads:

B. Suppressing the Doorman’s Story 10. A few months later, in or about October or November 2015, the AMI CEO learned that a former Trump Tower doorman (the “Doorman”) was trying to sell information regarding a child that the Defendant had allegedly fathered out of wedlock. At the AMI CEO’s 4 direction, AMI negotiated and signed an agreement to pay the Doorman $30,000 to acquire exclusive rights to the story. AMI falsely characterized this payment in AMI’s books and records, including in its general ledger. AMI purchased the information from the Doorman without fully investigating his claims, but the AMI CEO directed that the deal take place because of his agreement with the Defendant and Lawyer A.  11. When AMI later concluded that the story was not true, the AMI CEO wanted to release the Doorman from the agreement. However, Lawyer A [Michael Cohen] instructed the AMI CEO not to release the Doorman until after the presidential election, and the AMI CEO complied with that instruction because of his agreement with the Defendant and Lawyer A.

So … did Trump actually have a child with his former housekeeper? Do Ivanka , Don Jr. , Eric, Tiffany, and Barron have another sibling or maybe siblings ? Did AMI do some kind of Men in Black memory wipe on us as a society?

The answer is no on all counts — or at least we have no evidence to support doorman Dino Sajudin’s claim that Trump fathered a child with another ex-employee back in the ’80s.

The Associated Press and The New Yorker ’s Ronan Farrow investigated the story separately, and both published reports on their findings in April 2018. Sajudin never claimed he had firsthand knowledge of the affair; it was just a rumor he’d been told. The AP talked with the woman Trump allegedly had a relationship with — who has never been publicly named — and she said the story was untrue :

The woman at the center of the rumor about Trump denied emphatically to the AP last August that she’d ever had an affair with Trump, saying she had no idea the Enquirer had paid Sajudin and pursued his tip. The AP has not been able to determine if the rumor is true and is not naming the woman. “This is all fake,” she said. “I think they lost their money.”

The second paragraph of Farrow’s story said the alleged daughter and the father of the family also denied the tale:

The New Yorker  has uncovered no evidence that Trump fathered the child. A spokesperson for the Trump Organization denied the allegations, including the assertion that Calamari told Sajudin the story. When I reached out to the alleged daughter, she declined through a representative of her employer to answer questions. Her mother did not respond to repeated requests for comment. I spoke with the father of the family, who said that Sajudin’s claim was “completely false and ridiculous” and added that the  Enquirer  had put the family in a difficult situation. “I don’t understand what they had to pay this guy for,” he said.  The New Yorker  is not disclosing the family members’ names, out of respect for their privacy. 

Trump and AMI might have wanted to keep the story out of the media, but that doesn’t mean there was anything to it. Farrow reported that Sajudin had refused to talk when he realized he wouldn’t be paid:

When I reached out to Sajudin, he responded, in an e-mail, “My time is valuable. What’s your offer??” After being told that  The New Yorker  does not pay sources, Sajudin declined further requests for an interview.

After the AP and New Yorker stories were published, Sajudin released this statement to CNN:

Today I awoke to learn that a confidential agreement that I had with AMI (The National Enquirer) with regard to a story about President Trump was leaked to the press. I can confirm that while working at Trump World Tower I was instructed not to criticize President Trump’s former housekeeper due to a prior relationship she had with President Trump, which produced a child.

A few months later, Sajudin was released from his contract with AMI , leaving him free to discuss his Trump dirt and the subsequent cover-up. Sajudin declined to speak to any media outlets. In December 2019 he self-published a book called Trump Doorman . The blurb reads:

I was the Trump doorman. Back then I wasn’t able to fully give my side of the story and was poorly portrayed in the news. I felt that writing a book would give the public a chance to hear my side of what happened and hear it directly from me.

In the book Sajudin claims that he complained about the concierge at Trump Tower, who was rude to residents, took long lunches, and bought pricey handbags and shoes from Bergdorf Goodman. He said he was eventually told that she received special treatment because she had a child with Trump as a result of an affair that started when she was working as his housekeeper. Per the New York Post :

At one point, he claims, a man he described only as “Mr. C” — who ran the Trump Organization’s day-to-day operations — told him that the woman was the mother of a daughter Trump had fathered out of wedlock. “Little Tiffany and Ivanka are not the only girls out there carrying the big guy’s DNA,” Sajudin alleges in the book. “As time went on I continued to complain to my union boss about the head concierge. “One day, Mr. C looked at me dead in the face and said, ‘Dino when you have Trump’s kid, you can do whatever the hell you want to,’” writes Sajudin.

Michael Cohen has said he is not “Mr. C.” and journalists have not corroborated these claims. Sajudin’s book received little attention when it was published, but it was included on a list of discovery items released by the Manhattan DA’s office. Perhaps the trial will lead to new evidence that gives credence to rumors about the long-lost sixth Trump child, but it seems highly unlikely.

This story was updated after the doorman’s story was cited at the Trump hush money trial.

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SOMEHOW: Thoughts on Love, by Anne Lamott

Anne Lamott is a national treasure who, at age 70, is putting out not books but throw pillows with embroidered mottoes and little tassels. A lot of people find comfort in them and will curl right up with her latest, “Somehow,” a collection of inspirational anecdotes and meditations. Yours truly wants them off the bed.

It wasn’t always like this. In a world when many books are regrettably D.O.A., Lamott published two works of nonfiction in the space of two years that were C.O.A.: classics on arrival.

“ Operating Instructions ” (1993) was a scatologically exact account of raising her baby, Sam, minus a father in the picture, that presaged a brood of parenting memoirs, including Rachel Cusk’s “A Life’s Work.”

And countless writers have clutched “ Bird by Bird ” (1994), a guide to conquering the terror of the blank page during their dark nights of the soul. (Darker, so much darker, since the internet made words cheap.)

My introduction to Lamott was reviewing “Crooked Little Heart” (1997), about an adolescent girl named Rosie on the tennis circuit, for a different publication. I disagreed completely with the esteemed Benjamin Cheever’s complaint in The New York Times that nothing really happened in it . If you had any memory of being an adolescent girl, then that nothingness, which included a creepy spectator named Luther and a teen pregnancy, was everything.

Finding out “Crooked Little Heart” was a sequel to “Rosie” (1983), wherein the protagonist’s mother is widowed young and reckons with her alcoholism, was like walking through the wardrobe in “The Chronicles of Narnia” into a fictional world whose boundaries magically expand. A comparison more fitting when you realize that Lamott’s work, like C.S. Lewis’s, has a strong Christian subtext — when it’s not beckoning you right into the next pew.

Though religious, Lamott, a longtime member of a Bay Area Presbyterian church where she teaches Sunday school, is never holier-than-thou. If her fellow Californian Joan Didion slouched coolly towards Bethlehem, Lamott is forever fumbling toward transcendence, disclosing her baser impulses and littering profanities.

There is the indelible comparison, from “Rosie,” of professional jealousy to swallowing golf balls. In “Somehow” Lamott recalls envying another mom whose son is in medical school and modeling in Milan while Sam is at a low point, and her resentment of a female friend of a friend, with “perfect breasts, proud and immobile as the lions outside the New York Public Library.” (She can also be quite preoccupied with rear ends and jiggly arms.)

Didion’s California was ominous, remote, dry, chilly as an aperitif; Lamott’s is optimistic, accessible, earthy and — hand in hand with her Christianity — suffused with confessional recovery culture, warm as the cup of tea that is served at least half a dozen times in these pages. Only occasionally in “Somehow” does she invoke the bad old days, when she had to “all but army crawl across the floor of my houseboat to get us the platter of cocaine.”

In “Miami,” Didion wrote solemnly of Cuban exiles; in “Somehow,” Lamott takes a pleasure trip to Cuba with her newish husband , Neal Allen — though it’s not that pleasurable for her, because of the bad Wi-Fi — and encounters a pair of locals, wrapping “my aged imperialist running dog arms” around “the youthful ­ coffee-​colored socialist shoulders” of a young woman as they cavort in the surf, then discovering to her delight that her boyfriend is also in recovery, 12 years.

“Sí, sobrio. Alcohólicos Anónimos,” he tells her. “Bill Wilsonos!”

“Ay, caramba,” Lamott replies.

There’s no reason to persist with the daffy Didion comparison, except that both writers are mass-worshiped and occasionally scolded for their white privilege . Didion had dread ; Lamott has dreadlocks . Instead of reclusion and spareness and a frozen youthful image on tote bags , Lamott seems forever available, just next door, sharing the creaks of age and experience in the media ( including The Times ) and on social media — and churning out book after book after book.

Cross-eyed from my own toddlers — part of Lamott’s appeal, to women, is that she seems to guide you through life stages — I completely missed that “Crooked Little Heart” itself had a sequel, “Imperfect Birds” (2010). That no one has packaged this as “The Chronicles of Rosie” feels like a catalog failure — but also of a piece with Lamott’s rambling career, which has slowly covered the publishing landscape when you weren’t looking, like wisteria.

In a moment of interpersonal crisis, her husband reminds Lamott — with a cup of tea — that she has a diligent “inner critic” determined to keep her “small and worried.” Very probably, she doesn’t need an outer critic, even one who hastens to reassure that she loved the glints of old Lamott here, like pointing out seaside “a species of small octopus in pink chiffon who looks just like Zsa Zsa Gabor.”

More Gabor — I implore! Fewer repeat steepings.

“Operating Instructions” was followed by “ Some Assembly Required ” (2012), a fainter reprise with Lamott’s grandson, Jax. She has seemed to curtsy, titlewise at least, to Elizabeth Gilbert’s blockbuster “Eat, Pray, Love” with “Help, Thanks, Wow” (2012) and “Dusk, Night, Dawn” (2021).

Though Didion wrote a play based on her best seller about grief, “The Year of Magical Thinking,” she mercifully never was given the keys to the platform now known as X. Lamott got in hot water when she misgendered Caitlyn Jenner in 2015. She wrote about this already in “Hallelujah Anyway” (2017) and is still trying to clamber out, fretting in the new book’s title essay about a fund-raiser for a law firm that does pro bono work for L.G.B.T.Q. refugees. (In the next one—“Tweet by Tweet”?—maybe she can soothe Swifties peeved by her exhaustion with the pop star’s ubiquity.)

Slim as it is, “Somehow” is flabby and sometimes cringey, defining love variously as “how hope takes flight”; “a pond or a pool where we teach little kids to swim”; “a bench,” “a root system” and “a windbreaker, fashioned of people who sat and listened and got us tea.”

To be clear, I love Anne Lamott. But when she writes of how a friend with a fatal disease passed gas on a walk, and a visiting rabbi blowing a shofar on a houseboat deck reminded her of the flatulence, one does flash unkindly on the remark David Foster Wallace attributed to a lady of his acquaintance, re: another national treasure, John Updike : “Has the son of a bitch ever had one unpublished thought?”

SOMEHOW : Thoughts on Love | By Anne Lamott | Riverhead | 208 pp. | $22

Alexandra Jacobs is a Times book critic and occasional features writer. She joined The Times in 2010. More about Alexandra Jacobs

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