Hidden Husband ❤ ~ Shikha Kaul
"Life is a vicious circle, what goes around, comes around."
And I guess, I couldn't have find a more perfect answer to this statement than this captivating book.
"Hidden Husband" is a perfect blend to the inner turmoil which we all face in life. Insecurities, loyalty, love, trust and jealousy is something which we all face at some point of time in our relationship but what matters is how mature we are to handle the situation.
A story about Aisha and Raghav, a couple who's madly in love with each other and yet couldn't be together, not because they didn't wish to but because they weren't destined to.
Aisha, a typical Delhite who belonged to a Punjabi family and Raghav, a Bihari from Ranchi who loved Aisha more than anything but couldn't accept her forever as his family was an undesirable hurdle between their alliance.
You wonder what makes them a hurdle? Hah! Easy to guess, it was their caste. They couldn't accept a girl out of their own caste. A thinking which almost 90% of parents in India are still living with. The bubble which they had created for Delhi girls was something which refrained them to accept Aisha as their daughter in law.
Aisha and Raghav tried to make both ends meet, in fact they did something which was not known to all, a secret which they had to live with till the day they died, they couldn't share it with anyone and neither could they have lived with such a burden forever, therefore they killed the secret at last. They didn't let it exist at all. What came back to them only made Aisha and Raghav more depressed and fragile emotionally. They didn't have an option. Neither they could continue, nor they could hurt their family, so they decided on to the best for all. They blew off the flame of love between them and continued to live two different lives. They were now the strangers who knew each other the most.
Two different countries, two different families, two different lives yet the destiny couldn't be tricked.
They met again. They met again at another level of life, the only different being that they weren't lovers now, they met to live a new relation between them.
And I guess, I couldn't have find a more perfect answer to this statement than this captivating book.
"Hidden Husband" is a perfect blend to the inner turmoil which we all face in life. Insecurities, loyalty, love, trust and jealousy is something which we all face at some point of time in our relationship but what matters is how mature we are to handle the situation.
A story about Aisha and Raghav, a couple who's madly in love with each other and yet couldn't be together, not because they didn't wish to but because they weren't destined to.
Aisha, a typical Delhite who belonged to a Punjabi family and Raghav, a Bihari from Ranchi who loved Aisha more than anything but couldn't accept her forever as his family was an undesirable hurdle between their alliance.
You wonder what makes them a hurdle? Hah! Easy to guess, it was their caste. They couldn't accept a girl out of their own caste. A thinking which almost 90% of parents in India are still living with. The bubble which they had created for Delhi girls was something which refrained them to accept Aisha as their daughter in law.
Aisha and Raghav tried to make both ends meet, in fact they did something which was not known to all, a secret which they had to live with till the day they died, they couldn't share it with anyone and neither could they have lived with such a burden forever, therefore they killed the secret at last. They didn't let it exist at all. What came back to them only made Aisha and Raghav more depressed and fragile emotionally. They didn't have an option. Neither they could continue, nor they could hurt their family, so they decided on to the best for all. They blew off the flame of love between them and continued to live two different lives. They were now the strangers who knew each other the most.
Two different countries, two different families, two different lives yet the destiny couldn't be tricked.
They met again. They met again at another level of life, the only different being that they weren't lovers now, they met to live a new relation between them.
The author of the book, Shikha Kaul has left a trace on my mind with her mesmerising words. She has made me see beyond those words on how easy it seems to leave the past and move on, but I wonder how can we forget that it was our life too and we can't leave it at any point. It stays with us and knocks at our door when we least expect it. :)
Hats off to you ma'am! Thanks for such a lovely story.
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