My dear Avantika,
Well, I have finally managed to locate your blog from your PM and have read Chapter 2 of this story with considerable pleasure. Though I must confess that I am still waiting for the day that you will write a light, fluffy, charming love story devoid of all this cartload of crushing angst, this one is coming along nicely.
You have managed to avoid making all this hidden anguish on both sides tip over into the OTT zone, though I still do not understand why Kabir has to be so vulnerable and so inert at the same time after Ananya leaves out of the blue for London (why not the US, surely a much more promising location for budding Indian journalists?).
It is not like him, as you have sketched him, to (a) give up on her so easily or (b) let his professional performance slide so fast and so badly. A hard core professional is not derailed so easily by a broken love affair, not even if he has the baggage of an unpleasant divorce on top of it. It is not convincing, to me at least. One has one's pride if nothing else, and that keeps one going. This one looks like a Devdas-lite!
As for your Ananya, she has of course to be super-successful and Ms.Fixit, for that is the unwritten rule for all heroines, bar our poor Riya, of course! 😉 Kritika is getting to be better by the day onscreen, and I can almost see her in your Ananya. Almost, for I hope Ms.KK is not going to start shivering and crying at the sound of her crush!
I shall look out for Chapter 3, and once again, it is very pleasant and appealing reading.
Shyamala Aunty
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