I Too Had a Love Story

Romance

Print length: 288 pagesTransworld Publishers Limited, 2017

Description

After a reunion with college friends in Kolkata, software engineer Ravin returns to his job in Bhubaneswar with marriage newly on his mind. He joins an online matrimonial service and connects with Khushi, a young woman living in Delhi. Their cautious messages give way to long phone conversations, allowing friendship and love to develop before they have met face to face. Ravin arranges their first meeting around an overseas work trip, and the relationship soon expands to include both families and plans for an engagement. Presented as an autobiographical love story, the novel follows a modern courtship shaped by distance, technology, family expectations, and the vulnerable leap from an imagined future to a shared one.

Reading profile

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Collected’s assessment, not reader ratings. Complexity runs from 1 (least demanding) to 5 (most demanding).

Writing: How much attention the sentences and language require.
Ideas: How much interpretation or abstract reasoning the book asks of you.
Structure: How much you need to keep track of speakers, timelines and connections.
Background knowledge: Prior knowledge needed to follow the book, beyond what it explains.
Emotional intensity: Emotional pressure, from gentle (1) to intense (5). Separate from difficulty.

Writing style

Conversational · Direct

Pace

Moderate

Tone

Earnest · Intimate · Melancholic · Romantic

Structure

Linear

Focus

Character · Relationships

Emotional intensity

5 / 5

Reading complexity

1–5 · higher means more demanding

Writing: 2 / 5
Ideas: 2 / 5
Structure: 2 / 5
Background knowledge: 1 / 5

Themes

FamilyFriendshipGriefLoveMarriageMortality

About Ravinder Singh

Ravinder Singh is an Indian novelist who moved into writing after beginning his career as a software engineer at Infosys. His fiction is built around emotional immediacy: direct, conversational prose, recognizable contemporary settings, and relationships tested by grief, distance, memory, and competing ideas of commitment. I Too Had a Love Story grew from his own experience of love and loss, establishing the close relation between lived experience and romantic narrative that marks his early work. Can Love Happen Twice? revisits bereavement through the question of whether a new attachment can coexist with loyalty to the past. Yet his range extends beyond private romance. Your Dreams Are Mine Now places a relationship amid student politics and struggles over power, while Like It Happened Yesterday uses warm, comic recollection to recover childhood before smartphones and social media. Singh has also worked as a publisher through Black Ink, giving his career a role beyond authorship in Indian fiction.

Book details

For the print edition listed above.

Publisher: Transworld Publishers Limited
Language: English
ISBN: 9781784163341

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