I learnt about your book "Joy of Living" from your website and searched in some book shops of malls in Bangalore and Mumbai. It was not available. Then my daughter got it through Amazon / Flipchart. It is really excellent. I liked it so much that I finished the book in one sitting. The language and narration is such that the anxiety created to know the next incidence is maintained all throughout the book. ( I must confess that I am not good in expressing my thoughts in English.) May God bless you in your endeavor to write more and more fiction. Besides giving a powerful message through your book 'to face the ups and downs of life with determination to win with whatever you have', you have proved yourself to be a mature writer.
We do not see things as they are; we see them as we are. ["We must see things as they are and not as we think"] "First tell yourself what you really want to be and then do what you need to do" [P. 25] "Submit to love faithfully and it gives a person joy, it intoxicates, it envelopes, it isolates. It creates fragrance in the air, ardor from coldness; it beautifies everything around it" [P. 37] "Three grand essentials to happiness in life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for" [P. 45] "Life is a series of collisions with the future, it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be" [P. 59] "We should always be mindful of the ever-present prospect of death, and never forget it even for an instant. If we do so, the distractions of the world will not infect us and it shall be easier for us to follow our path in the earnest" [P. 75] "Situations are easier to enter than to exit; but it is only common sense to look for a way out before venturing in." [P. 87]