Ranchi based author Vishal Anand has written a book ‘Emotions Unplugged’ compiling short stories depicting the emotions realized after an incident occurs. The book is a collection of 15 short stories based on different genres. According to Anand, his book is about numerous emotions plucked in to bring a thought provoking cocktail.
Interestingly, his every story begins with a quotation of a noted scholar creating curiosity for the reader to go through a story covering hardly two or three pages each.
Vishal Anand has recently completed his Masters in Business Economics from Delhi University to fulfill his zeal for knowledge, and is pursuing his career in an analytics firm out of Delhi. Also, he owns a computer engineering degree from Bharati Vidyapeeth College, Pune.
His first story is about a young married couple wherein the wife decides to end the marriage due to some attitude problems with her husband. However, the silently expressed affection of her husband by agreeing his wife’s decision makes a change in the courtroom when the later decides to patch up and settle with her life partner.
The second story presents a situation where aged people are neglected in the society. Similarly, the third story is about a poor mother and daughter who are helped by a noble man. Penning about the grandparent’s generosity, Anand writes his fourth story on a grandmother who loved her eldest grandson wholeheartedly.
The fifth story is on a boy who married his first love after a long wait. Taking his stories to a different angle, the writer mentioned an episode of person named Madhuji in the sixth story who confronted of being a dacoit and killing a man. The dacoit was exploited by politicians. The exploitation compelled him to take the man’s life.
In the seventh story, Patrick Bolt, a wanderer describes his visit in India after exploring many countries at a go. Bolt was influenced by the Indians. He realized how he was wrong in his perception. After leaving India, he planned of visiting 27 other countries.The remaining eight stories are about life after college, a wild night, a groom, a silent faith on God, a skeptical thought over having a lover and on deeds.
Anand claims his most of the stories in this book are real and inspired by people and their experiences. Acknowledging the people behind the publication of the book, he has appreciated the first reader of his blog post to the delivery man who made the book reach stores.