But that is a silly book and has no literary merits to it, I told her as she was arranging it at the railway station's books kiosk.
So what if you consider yourself an erudite person and others who like racy stuff as lowbrow unintellectuals, she countered fiestly picking up the book and giving a victorious smile.
By the way have you read it , she asked me , I was nonplussed and caught in my own web.
I had indeed not read it and the moment I acknowledged it she took out a pen from her purse and autographed it with a flourish and gifted it to me with a smile.
I wanted the earth to split and consume me, but she just wrote down her phone number on the book for me to give an honest review after reading it.
That was the start of a wonderful friendship.

© Anuj Jain
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