Like a Bird on the Wire by Chhavi Bhardwaj

Nethra Kaul is sharp, efficient, beautiful and single.

A quintessential “good girl”, she believes in doing the ‘right thing’, always.

Only, her life isn’t all that right.

A broken heart?

Check. Misfit at work?

Double-check.

Hopeless romanticism?

Not enough checks in the world!

Avinash Rathore, her batchmate from the IAS, is the man she had loved and wanted, very much.

Avinash is a high-flyer and his life looks picture perfect at the moment – a soaring career, a lovely wife, and a beautiful child.

What more could he possibly want?

What more, other than the intense, sublime love that had once blossomed in the salubrious environs of Mussoorie, where Nethra and Avinash had trained as probationers?

The tentacles of fate are closing in fast as Nethra and Avinash come together, one more time, for something that will prove to be as disastrous as it is enticing.

How will Avinash get trapped in a labyrinth spawned out of animosity?

Does a woman need a man in her life to feel complete? Will Nethra find solace, will she find love ?

About the Author

Chhavi Bhardwaj was born in Uttarakhand in 1985.

After studying electronic and communications engineering,

she was selected for the Indian Administrative Service in the year 2008.

She is currently placed as Collector, Jabalpur.

Review

A unique work of reality, bottled in fiction. Why it is a must read is because it gives you the most honest window into the world of ‘achievers’, were every achievement essentially comes at the price of sensitivity, The author clearly and boldly underlines this human tragedy of achievements that lead into a world of stoic silence.