Last month I received a pleasant surprise-a gift from Arti Honrao. As a longtime blog friend and fan of her writings, I was entitled for a
free copy of her second book – “Is this Love & Autumn-the last leaf”.
(Thanks Arti but I am still waiting for a signed copy of your first
book! :) )
Arti Honrao is a poet and a writer and her works are a treatise
of human emotions. She has the gift to pen different layers of human feelings
into her words with ease. Arti is a queen of poignant poetry and a hopeless
romantic and that is very much evident in her recent book with two short
stories.
The first story (Is this love) in the book deals with the
love triangle- a very common theme in Indian cinema... But what is uncommon here is
the way Arti has handled the subtlety of the emotions involved in a graceful
and in a somewhat “cute” manner. The second story (Autumn-The last leaf) is again
a play of human emotions but then the twists and turns in the plot grips the
reader till the last page. Arti’s strength is her mastery in entangling the
complex emotions of life and putting them into simple next door characters of
her stories.
Well done Arti. GBU!
