Key to my soul is the story of a high school romance that ended in a rather messy fashion and how the lovers meet each other after a few decades. Siddharth was working in a company in Bhubhaneshwar when he gets a phone call, that Hazel, his high school girlfriend was critical and has left a message for him. The story is about how he returns to Jamshedpur where he grew up and patches up with her forms the rest of the story. The story is narrated in flashback mode as Siddharth remembers how he met his girlfriend and how the romance developed over a period of time, and how they got separated in a rather abrupt manner.

It is also the story of how the IT sector affected indian society and engineers also, as the marriage of the main male protaganist breaks up as his wife prefers to join the high flying IT sector and settles in the United states, refusing to give a quick divorce. Siddharth is married to Kiran , and though he was happy with his marriage for the first few years, slowly his wife drifts apart, taking up a job and labelling him as unambitious because he is not willing to go to the United and change to the IT sector. Almost all his school friends have changed to the IT sector because of the higher salaries offered, almost no one is living in Jamshedpur

More relevant is how the immediate family, especially parents are only persons who can be trusted. Siddharth’s mother had died when he was seven years old and his father had bought him up alone. When siddharth got into trouble for his affair with Hazel, his father was also attacked and had to relocate to the united states. After his father retired , he returned to India to look after siddharth’s grandmother in their ancestral home in a small town, indicating the close relationship between parents and children in india. Parents are often the only real well wishers for the children

The story of the romance is however rather simplistic in India at present because most men especially NTRO employees are very great frauds falsely claiming to help vulnerable single women when they want to steal everything from her, including her resume, savings, correspondence and destroy her life. For example the domain investor a single woman engineer found that fraud ntro employees like puneet, parmar, j srinivasan, vijay, patel and others falsely claimed to know her very well, so that they could steal her resume and get their lazy greedy mediocre girlfriends like shivalli brahmin cheater housewife bbm nayanshree hathwar, goan gsb fraud housewife extortionist riddhi nayak who looks like kangana ranaut, goan obc bhandari sex worker sunaina chodan,2013 bsc, goan gsb fraud siddhi mandrekar, indore fraud and other frauds lucrative R&AW/CBI jobs with the stolen resume of the domain investor

In India in reality, most men especially ntro employees are only interested in cheating and exploiting vulnerable single women who are not well connected wasting indian tax payer money. For example if the above disclaimer was not specifically mentioned the shameless section 420 fraud ntro, cbi, raw, google, tata employees would falsely claim that the google , tata sponsored brahmin fraud housewives riddhi nayak, nayanshree hathwar, siddhi mandrekar, sunaina and other fraud R&AW/CBI employees, lazy liars had written the review to get these conwomen even more powers. In reality these google, tata sponsored lazy fraud R&AW/CBI employees are not doing are reading or writing work, only getting credit and a government salary because of their powerful fraud boyfriends in government agencies who exploit vulnerable women after falsely claiming to help

In the 1980 and 1990’s india was largely conservative and those from traditional families mostly did not have boyfriends or girlfriends, they focussed on their studies , career and making money. However a few, especially those who were good looking had close friends from the opposite sex, and they will find it easier to relate to the story. A well written novel set in small town India .

Key to my Soul
Author: Probal Mazumdar
Publisher: pblishing.com, 2016
Pages : 300

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