SoulfulUnsobriety

Name of the book: Tharki Author: Kunal Marathe Published by: Legendary Books India Number of Pages: 202 Genre: Non-Fiction T harki, a Hindi word, which in English means someone who is lascivious, pervert or lewd; however the story of this book is nowhere close to its meaning. The story is of a guy from a middle-class Maharastrian family, wherein it is very common for the parents to work hard to make sure their child goes to the best possible school/college and pursue great careers, falls in love with a girl at his school - Tara. While the love story takes an abrupt yet a dramatic twist, the story gets nothing but more interesting. The author and the protagonist of the story – Kunal, goes through a series of repercussion post his break up with Tara; he gives up his dream career in Merchant Navy and lands up in a dingy room where all he does is smoke his lungs out and becomes a drunkard. His constant friends during his bad (and later, the good) days were Har...

"Don't run behind the things you wish to have. The more you run behind those things, the faster they'll run away from you." after a small pause he continued, "Wait and see, you'll get that thing you've been running behind!", h e said with such simplicity and warmth that I got silent for a few seconds. "Are you even listening to what I am saying?" he asked "Yes, I am." I replied, still lost in the train of  thoughts. "You think too much and take unnecessary tension about things which do not even matter that much. Let go. Breathe. Things will fall in place and you'll be at peace." he continued to say while all I did was listen. "See, everyone has a timing which is set by God. Today you have it, tomorrow someone else will. Similarly, today someone else has it, tomorrow who knows, you'd have it. Why worry about what someone has and you don't and sadden yourself? Huh?" I was walking in the ...