2047: The Unifier-Rashmi Trivedi

Book: 2047: The Unifier

Author: Rashmi Trivedi

Publisher: Hesten Books (Bluerose Publishing)

Would you try to do the impossible to get what you wish the most?

2047: The Unifier by Rashmi Trivedi is a futuristic novel, set in the year 2047 when India and Pakistan celebrate 100 years of their independence. Karan is an Indian Boy in love with a Pakistani Girl. While they are living in bliss, Karan’s father puts up a seemingly impossible challenge before them, to get the permission to marry, India and Pakistan have to unite, and so begins the race between love and years of mistrust. Karan undertakes this challenge and sets on this path that say doesn’t exist. Will people accept his crazy notions? How does he sell this idea of love and peace? Most importantly, would politics trump love? Read the book to undertake this journey.

2047: The Unifier is a touching story that has been written completely in the future, yet not so distant one. The book begins in the year 2030, when a Pakistani girl gets lost in the lanes of Chandni Chowk, unaware of the fact that border skirmishes have begun and is faced by a group of guys, until she’s saved by the chivalry of one of them. While no numbers were exchanged or names discussed, years later, in a theatre, same pair of eyes meet and recognize each other, leading to an unexpected romance story in 2046 in London. Karan and Fiza decide to get married and this is when things take a turn. Karan’s father, an ex-serviceman is dead against him marrying Fiza and puts a condition that he’ll consent to the wedding if somehow India and Pakistan unite in the 100^th year of Independence. The plot then traces Karan’s quest to do the impossible and create history. While he gathers friends, he also gathers enemies which put roadblocks on his dream at each step of the way. The plot of the book is interesting with scenes generating curiosity and make you complete the book in a single sitting. The storytelling is fresh and the viewpoint of the author is very hopeful and has a positive effect on the reader. The climax of the book is unexpected and can send shiver down your spine if you are engrossed in the book.

Talking of the characters, while both Fiza and Karan are created as romantics, each of them exhibits a very different personality trait all through the plot. Fiza is shown to be a woman who is fearful and wanted to stay in the shadows. Her reasons might have been valid, but through the story we realise that she never put her love for Karan above anything else. Karan, on the other hand, made his love his mission. Irrespective of what happened, he never broke his promises to Fiza and never became politically aligned. Even in the face of adversity, his strong will never broke. Coming to a third character, Anu is someone who changed the entire plot. Her chance meeting with Karan changed the course of the book and I loved the character arc of this particular one above anything else.

For a book full of hope and a belief in the future, I give the book 4.75/5.

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