Uncomfortable around
boys, the only girl in her department, can Tanu outshine or find true love in
the sea of boys at IIT? Having cleared the exam that only the most intelligent
do, Tanu reaches IIT Delhi merely to realize that she is an outlier in the
system a girl at IIT! She befriends Puja, Divya and Charu and thus begins a
roller coaster ride through torturous exams, below average grades, biased lab
assistants, nutty professors, envious seniors, hard to get boys, midnight
trysts, fun fests, competitive sports, a suicide, a dominating grandfather and
rigged elections!
Be it asking
questions in class or catching up on her beauty sleep, how does one go about it
without being noticed by the boys or the professors? Inter-hostel competitions
can be embarrassing especially when the boys purposely choose awkward topics
and craft shameless clues. How does one overcome these stumbling blocks keeping
ones dignity intact?
Chatting and
innocuous jokes can be a torture if there are forty pairs of eyes glued to
every action of yours. How does one make it feel normal and go about life at
IIT? When it comes to matters of the heart, and so many to choose from, how
does one know who is Mr Right? Heartbreaks & Dreams! is a delightful and
funny attempt at depicting circumstantial challenges intrinsic to a college
campus characterized by a skewed sex-ratio, cut-throat competition, grueling
course work and a largely geek population. Seen through the eyes of a confident
and intelligent yet simple, middle-class girl, the book journeys through the
most vulnerable and youthful times of her stay at IIT.
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