The Best of Durjoy Dutta: Box Set is a mixture of love and relationships and the issues related to them. This is a set of some short stories ranging from the intensely sensitive, Till The Last Breath; the bracing romance saga, Hold My Hand; the bestselling, World’s Best Boyfriend; to the obsessive, You Were My Crush. These are some of the best works of the author, Durjoy Dutta. ‘Till The Last Breath’ is the story about 2 youngsters, a girl who is distressed by ALS and a guy who had been entangled in the web of drug abuse for the past many years. The narrative is about the last few months of both their lives. This book was at No. 3 on the bestseller list of The Hindustan Times. It released in the year 2011.
‘Hold My Hand’ is not a usual love story that Durjoy writes. It is a bit different from his previous works and at the same time is captivating. The protagonists in the story are depicted in a much strengthened manner, be it Deep, Avantika or Ahana. The book released in August, 2013 and was bespoken by the Hong Kong Tourism Board. One of the fine lines from the book is: “Being ‘bent’ is kind of like being victorious, it’s powerful and liberating and yet it’s lonely, like it’s only you who can feel the utter joy of flying, but you’re flying alone even in a crowd and there are no cotton clouds”. ‘World’s Best Boyfriend’ revolves around Dhruv and Aranya fritter away a good fraction of their lives to understand as to why they hate each other and still can’t live apart.
They are unable to find an answer to this because of their miseries towards each other. Still something enlightens them time and again that THIS IS NOT IT. ‘You Were My Crush’ is a story about Benoy Roy, who lives alone in a large house, a big car and a wealthy dad. Regardless of having all he has nothing and is all alone. He had lost his mother to cancer and the father-son relation with his dad is not very healthy.
There is Eshaan, his caring friend and Diya also a friend. Eventually, Benoy falls for Shaina who is Diya’s sister and the story takes an interesting turn from here because Shaina is already dating Manoj. Summarily, this set has quite interesting and fascinating stories to offer. It can be ordered online at Amazon India.
About the author:
Durjoy Datta was born on February 7, 1987 and is an Indian writer who generally pens down romance fiction. He did his graduation from Delhi College of Engineering and further did PGDBM in Marketing from Management Development Institute. He is the co-founder of Grapevine India Publishers. Six of his books are runaway bestsellers. In 2012, he received the Teacher’s Achievement Award and joined the list of celebrities like Ranbir Kapoor, Anushka Sharma and Prahlad Kakkar amongst other personalities. He had been one of the highest selling Indian writers of 2011.
