A Red, Red Rose - Search for an Identity

Deepak, like us, has a heart full of aspiration. He searches for an ideal-true love: symbolically, a red rose which motivates a person to sacrifice his all for his love. He becomes a successful writer. A girl from his school days, Sheena, whom he loved passionately appeals in her letter for his help, stating that she had been molested and would die happily if she was avenged. What would you have done? He reaches out and kills for his love! But he gives himself up to justice since he cannot live with his sin. After his release from the prison, he goes out in deeper quest of God, creation, and love. A circle of friends joins him in his quest. Later, Deepak finds that Sheena is alive. He is shattered. So is she, having assumed that he had faced the death sentence. She glanced back and said, "You've broken my spirit, Deepak. But I'll have my sweet revenge . . . I'll hit back one day." Sheena asks a lover to kill Deepak because she cannot see him happy with another girl. Does Deepak survive the attack on him? What happens to Sheena? Does Deepak find true love and peace? Does Deepak get the message of the red rose and its thorns?

The author works for an NGO. He has great passion for writing. His professional books on banking and law have found wide acceptance in the market. This book on fiction was started when he was fourteen years old and a school student. Then in course of time he made revisions and added new material. Now after fifty years, the book reads so well that he would like others to have the opportunity to read and enjoy the book.