Book Review : A Drizzle in the Desert by PC Balasubramanian

PC Balasubramanian’s latest book is all to do with fiction with a twist. His work, ‘A Drizzle in the Desert’, is about a young man, Abhishek Sundaram, his wife and daughter. Abhi is well settled in the US and hired by a company called Neomart.

Neomart was a leader in garments, accessories and home furnishings in the US and EU and now, wanted to move its operations to India, as well. And for that, Abhishek was chosen. This did not go down, too well with his wife, Anjali. His wife, who was well settled, as an architect in the US, had no plans to move to India. 

Also, he had another problem. That was Deepali, who went to IIT Chennai, too. Actually, so did Anjali and it was there, that Abhi had met and married Anjali. But, Deepali was there too and she did have a crush on him right from his college days. Complicated? :)

Now, it got even more complicated when she also had moved to the US and actually, got a job in the same company, as Abhi. But, then she was married to Karthik and they were thought to be an ideal couple. But complications rose within their marriage as well, as Karthik belonged to a rather rich family. They refused to accept their wedding and his mother saw to it, that no news from his family, regarding his father’s health would reach him. But, news has a way of reaching...

Meanwhile, Abhi’s father Sundaram and his closest acquaintance, Vasudevan had problems of their own, back home in Coimbatore. Vasudevan hoped that Abhi would find his son, who apparently lived in the US, unknown to them. Vasudevan’s wife, who had known the family, found it very suspicious that he would spend all his time with Sundaram’s wife and family. So, it was his desire that Abhi find Vasudevan's son for him.

Things got even more complicated, as time went on. Abhi was sent to

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Indiaand he took it upon himself to set up the company in India. He had help from Deepali, who was to handle the HR system for him in India too. And it became it became tougher with the crush on Abhi, and Karthik, who suspected them, and also had his own problems with his own family and had taken to drugs.

So, in all this mess, would the two couples make peace? Would Abhi choose to settle in India or go back to his wife and daughter? Would the business be set up in India and run well, here too? Would Karthik and Vasudevan’s complications be solved?

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