Gandhari Santoti

The book is a heart-throbbing miniature of three intellectual brave ladies Diya Oli and Ishika who were struggling through the various curves and bends of their lives in giving birth to a child in their destined eternity. Diya had to live the life of a housewife in a rural area due to her ill health that started at her birth and accelerated day by day by the negligence and other associated problems until she got a fibroid tumor at one of her ovaries which caused infertility. She was admitted to an in vitro nursing home for a remedy. The other character Oli is a college teacher. She also faced various ups and downs in her family which made her very strong and stout. She is a student of Physics and married her senior Rishi who is a University Physics professor and both of them are in a word genius in their subjects as well as in their lives. But Oli also became the victim of child infertility due to her bifurcated uterus. Along her course of destiny she was admitted to the same nursing home to get rid of her problems. Finally Ishika who was born with a golden spoon and was a freelance journalist found her fallopian tubes blocked which was the reason for her infertility. Her husband Syamantak was also a journalist with having a doctoral degree from the University of Oxford. Eventually Ishika was admitted to the same nursing home for having a test tube baby. The book stitched the various sentiments and stories of these three ladies from their points of view in a narrative manner and includes the intricate history of test-tube babies along with its various aspects of child infertility. Finally the ladies have different fates in the runway of their lives but the novel always stitches a border of hopes and dreams which are the origin of all our optimism towards life.