Across the Seven Seas: Saat Samundar Paar

Kamlesh Chauhan

Jul 2011 · AuthorHouse

About this ebook

The novel tells us very poignantly the story of Sundari, an educated, intelligent, sensitive lady who has imbibed Indian cultural values to the grass roots and struggles in vain to live them in her life. The story begins with the growing up of a girl into a woman; her craving for love that proves to be a mirage for her as the story moves on. A saying goes that The drowning man catches at a straw. It fully applies to Sundari for every firm catch of her turns out to be a straw and she consistently suffers. The initial blow came when she was married off to the uncle of her lover who had a heart of pure gold. The uncle on the other hand is all guilt through and through. Life of Sundari starts going down the hill as all her hopes and dreams are belied despite her best efforts to make her married life a success and life turns into a mockery. The tragedy becomes all the more painful when her lover Akash again makes an entry into her cursed life. She is forced to ride two horses which she can hardly manage, to function as an ideal housewife and an ardent lover. The author introduces a few moments of transitory but suspenseful relief during which too the reader trembles and is afraid of the next blow that Sundari is bound to receive and he starts sharing the miserable life of Sundari with numerous disastrous compromises in the same way as Sanjay shares the pain of Dhritrashra in the Mahabharta.

About the author

Kamlesh Chauhan was born in India. She was a teenager when she married and became mother at her very young age. She was blessed with two beautiful angels. A boy named Ranjun Chauhan and a girl named Kiren who is often called by her Nick Name Minu Chauhan. Both are very lovely children. Kamlesh believes it does not matter how old your kids are and no matter how grown ups they are, kids will always be kids to parents. Today society is taking parental love away when we lose the bonds between parents and children by saying, "Grow Up." Kamlesh Chauhan Firmly Believes our kids need to know when teenager or adult children abandoned parents for outsiders they give permission to the world to use them, abuse them, manipulate them against their parents. Gap between parents and children grow wider which are harming the growth in later life. She strongly believes one should always keep their mother language alive. Our children should learn their inheritance language, culture and faith to modify their own personal life as Marcus Garvey said, "What is a tree without roots" Very much Americanized, Kamlesh became a citizen of America and takes an active interest in American politics. She firmly believes all Immigrants should be faithful to America since we chose this country as our adopted lands. At the same time, Kamlesh cares for her motherland and its issues. She firmly believes “NO NATION SHOULD BE DIVIDED IN THE NAME OF RACE AND RELIGION" There will be peace in the world only if we respect each other and don't force our own beliefs on those who chose to follow separate paths. The planet earth will be one happy place – only if we learn to live peacefully with each other. She is a natural born writer and she had been writing songs, short stories and poetry for her school and college. Kamlesh writing was encouraged by her father Pritam Dass Rajput who adored India and America both the countries. When she came to the United States, after her marriage to her Indian husband who was already settled in America, she start witting about the difference between the American culture and the Indian culture. It was very hard to adjust in America at that time. She was not happy to settle in America, but slowly and surely she started writing a diary as she travel in Europe and Canada. Across the Seven Seas Novel is the diary she has written day to day life of others and herself hurts, Pain, Joy and Cultural barriers.