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Mapping Love by Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari

 MAPPING LOVE

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ASHWINY IYER TIWARI is an artist, filmmaker, and writer. A gold medallist in Commercial Arts from Sophia Polytechnic, Mumbai, she spent over a decade in the advertising world, telling stories for the biggest brands in India and Southeast Asia. She has won several advertising ‘craft’ awards across the world for her layered ideas and in-depth understanding of human psychology at the grass-root level. She directed the critically acclaimed, award-winning short film, ‘What’s for Breakfast?’, ‘Brothers’ and ‘Ghar ki Murgi’ (Taken for Granted). Her first highly acclaimed Hindi feature film, ‘Nil Battey Sannata’ also known as, ‘The New Classmate’ helped her spread the message of ‘education for all’ and won Indian and International gender sensitivity awards. She remade it in Tamil as, ‘Amma Kanakku’ (Mother’s Calculation). Her next movie, ‘Bareilly Ki Barfi,’ a slice of life romantic comedy continued her passion for storytelling won many popular and critics’ awards. With her latest widely acclaimed movie, ‘Panga’, she started an important conversation on sports and motherhood. Making her own path with her simple yet mindful outlook towards life, she is a conscious knowledge researcher, traveler, and seeker for life. This is her first book.

 MY REVIEW

The snippet starts with that impactful sentence and Ashwini Iyer Tiwari guides the peruser into an excursion of Oorja's life. "Oorja" signifies energy yet Oorja's life has so far not been about any type of energy. Covered by adoration from one parent however destroyed by the shortfall of it from different has made them carry on with their life in a consistent condition of limbo. An introvert, she has consistently discovered solace in the chest of her mom and the caring case her mom had consistently worked around her. In any case, it is the inclination of absolute inconsequentiality from her dad that shapes her point of view and it is this instability that makes them bounce all through connections, the last one handling her in a difficult situation past creative mind.

"Presently all that remains is this vacant inclination, an inclination somewhere inside me that things will be OK. There is quietness. Mayhem. Excitement. Allurement. And afterward, we hang tight for that one second, for that dark enthusiastic cloud to blast into drops of bliss once more. This is the round trip of life."

Mapping Love resembles a frightful tune, each sentence in the story making us stop, inhale and think about ourselves. I would have wanted to have somewhat more clearness on Anang's clinical issues coz I have left inclination as though not seeing the entire all-encompassing picture. This is a story to be relished by the peruser; enthusiastic and contacting, it is one of those books that leaves the peruser with a protuberance in the throat. 

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