We all are nothing but a collection of our experiences. Right from our birth, we start assembling memories and even the slightest resemblance to a memorable experience makes us nostalgic. Starting from our school, to college, to how we fell in love with the first time and realised it was the wrong person, and so on, we gather various experiences.
‘Seat No. 51’ is one such story about a guy named Shubham who is returning from his hometown Mathura. On his way to his destination, he befriends his co-passenger Siddhant who is entirely different from the people he has met before. Instantly they become friends and Shubham begins to admire him for his loving and compassionate nature.
The chapters are a collection of Siddhant’s experience of being a new student in his school and his intense friendship with Vasant, Rishi and Harinder. Siddhant narrates how he fell in love with Radhika and eventually with Shagun, whom he was about to get married with by the end of the book. The book is a collective of experiences that we all go through, meaningless friendship issues, infatuation, career issues, etc.
Unfortunately, by the end of the book, the protagonist of the novel Siddhanth is no more and dies while disembarking the train. Shubham cannot believe his eyes and writes this book as a tribute to Siddhant, who will now be just a memory.
Written by a third year student of Delhi University, this story will reach out to outstation students who travel frequently and meet people who gave them a part of their soul and never meet again.
Sudisha Misra
sudisham@dubeat.com
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