Bend Your Knees and Do Your Best by Kalyani Published by Leadstart Publishing on 2018
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Pages: 540
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Debut work of author Kalyani, Bend Your Kneed and Do Your Best is based up on real-life drama of person who has devoted their whole life to one thing. To get happiness in the corporate world. On reading I deciphered its theme, as one grows old, feeling of losing faith and uncertainty strikes harder than one can imagine.
The plot starts with the introduction of our protagonist’s life who is as a senior professional in an IT organization. Her traits include her focus on the task at hand and her nature of not following the risky path that few do in this type of work. From a very young age, our protagonist has a strong belief that the God acts on the random basis and does not believe in Karma. Soon Kalyani is faced with a task by her superiors to lay off people from her organization. Hell tries to break loose as Kalyani starts coping with her new responsibilities. She has an asura king as her imaginary friend along the journey and I think the author has done a great job to bring the comical element in literature to life through this medium.
The author does a good job in deciphering the life in the IT world, especially of modern-day India despite the fact that there are clear signs of unwanted complexity in it. It brings every individual’s insecurities in the spotlight to feed on. Such is its process and is theme covered in this novel.
The writing style is dominated by the first person narrative. It is elegantly smooth and helps the whole novel to be a light read, despite its length. The characterization I feel in this novel is not the strongest. The subplot included in my opinion is not the best course for the storyline to move ahead. The word dazzling is not a strong word to describe them here. The overall theme covered in this book is certainly to some point a real-life experience that author shares with us and it is good to see that the modern day Indian writers are willing to take the initiative and blend more in realistic fiction or tell us those stories that are based on reality.
The theme of the novel is something to be appreciated and will stay with me for a long time as a reader.
3 out of 5!
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