Bubli

Jaylakshmi Bhattacharya

Jul 2024 · Notion Press

About this ebook

‘But my friend doesn’t like to play anywhere but the mango garden, she doesn’t like the people much, she says.’ Bubli said.

Mother, Sabita, and grandmother stared at one another, “friend” who was that they wondered?
‘What friend Bubli?’ asked grandma.
‘Why? My friend! She comes to me only, and to no one else!’ Bubli said.

Like every year Bubli has come to her grandmother’s sprawling country house for her summer holidays. Only this time added to her usual routine of chasing butterflies, climbing trees, and running free and wild in the huge grounds and paddy fields, she had stumbled upon a new friend. An exceptionally tall, quiet and a brooding mysterious friend who changes her holidays, and her life for good.

Bubli’s gradual change in her personality, followed by her mysterious friend who only prefers to hang about the mango garden, shatters the quiet and predictable lives of those around her.

About the author

Holder of a master’s degree in Education to being a social entrepreneur, ex-corporate traversing sales, customer care, administration to public relations the author has touched upon almost every aspect of life and living. Seeing people from close quarters in different strata has given an insight into human minds and their everyday living has inspired to capture that into the writing. Lover of nature and the animal, Jaylakshmi is an individualist who considers herself to be deadly practical and very romantic at the same time; believing in love and the interconnectedness of all living being. The author tries to reflect the society as she sees it and as she would want to see it. With a readership including the young adult to the adult Jaylakshmi prefers to be considered as a literary writer and not a pulp fiction writer, addressing social issues and in some cases related to women’s issues in addition to just engaging her readers. In her career as a writer spanning the last twenty years in languages English and Bengali, from journalistic pieces, to features, to contributing to coffee table books she has written articles and interviews for news dailies, online newspaper, and novel. “AND AFTER THAT” is her first novel written in 2018 that still growing strong in its readership over the years and available on all major online platform, the book is a narrative of a woman seeking herself post-divorce. Currently engaged in an art gallery as the content writer and looking after artist interactions to organizing and holding art exhibitions, she says: “I find human relations the most intriguing of all, which finds its reflection in every story I create.”