Hari Bindi by Mridula Garg | Books That Stayed With Me
Sometimes, life catches you by surprise. You don't know why, but on a certain day, you feel so bright. The day feels so lively and the world seems so beautiful. Joy just bubbles inside you, and you let yourself float, like a leaf carried by a cool breeze. You don't question it. You don't try to hold it or understand it. You simply let yourself go with it, enjoying every little thing that comes your way. This is the feeling I was left with after reading Mridula Garg's Hari Bindi . It is an extraordinary story that fills you with the same exhilaration while reading it as the protagonist seems to experience through that day. Such is the power of the imagery that Mridula weaves that, for a while, you become almost one with her character. Perhaps because you have lived through such days yourself—days when everything seemed just right, when the world appeared a little more beautiful than usual, and you felt like breaking all the rules of the world, not out of malice or rebell...
