Nobody Loves for Nothing: Collected Short Stories

“Nobody Loves for Nothing” is a kaleidoscope woven through ten stories that capture the vicissitudes of the lives we live. As you sail through these tales, you capture animistic images of our existence painted with hues of sensuality, greed, simplicity, solitude, desire, betrayal, love and death.

A man suddenly gifted the dreamlike life he always wanted to live. Rabin tries to discover the truth of life after a crude setback throwing his life out of gear.

Why did a bride quite unexpectedly become crazy during her nuptials?

What happened to the retired old man when he suddenly got a fortune from nowhere?

Somebody used the pretext of survival to exploit even his closest relations and maneuver everything at his disposal.

Elsewhere, a young student sadly discovered that his role model, an old thespian, changed when he faced temptation. A young man desperately wants to get back his ex-girlfriend…

If the life of a person is something like being “thrown into this ruthless world without a choice,” then “Nobody Loves for Nothing” is a collage of these men and women and their images around us.

Partha always wanted to be a storyteller. Being an avid reader since childhood, myriads of meandering lines always told him that he also would write someday. But like many, the compulsion of survival (with a decent living) guided his destiny. He was forever stuck in a profession which was overwhelmingly demanding and had little room to respire. These stories were penned among those boring and grueling days when Partha was desperate to see blue sky and breathe fresh air escaping from his banal and lifeless professional burrow.

Partha is a post-graduate in technology from IIT and lives in NCR. He loves literature, theatre, films, music and traveling places.