The Sane Dreamer

About the Book Does saving your family’s honor trump personal happiness? Will the god be appeased if you overfeed him and not help the needy? Will the law protect the stray dog that tears an eight-year-old into shreds? Is a deceased manual scavenger just another statistic who risks his life for a cleaner future?  In the voice of the everyday person, Bobby Sachdeva questions the commonsensical in the most unorthodox manner in  Stories of Us . From Rishi to Parth or Lata to Rajnath, their hard-hitting and honest narratives are sure to inspire the common person to rethink the values long etched in our belief system.  My Take on the Book I was looking forward to reading this book for a very long time now, so when I was approached to review it I couldn’t refuse. This is the debut book of the author, I reviewed his 2 nd  book- Once there was me, you can read my take on the book here. Stories of Us   by  Bobby Sachdeva  is a collection of ...

About the Book Caught in the web of communal violence repeatedly, Bobby Sachdeva stares at his burning house set afire by the bloodthirsty mob of the anti-Sikh riots in Delhi. As a fourteen-year-old, his world turns upside down, exactly at the age his father had escaped from Pakistan during the Partition of India. Recovering from the trauma, Bobby re-builds his business and journeys across the US and China, experiencing a life unhindered by religious animosity. Having experienced both sides of religion – of immersion and detachment – he starts questioning the role of religion in our lives. Based on his vision of an emergent India, Bobby finally submits a PIL in the Supreme Court for religious shrines to distribute their excess income for the downtrodden. What happens next as religious hardliners turn against him? My Take on the Book Bobby Schdeva 's ‘ Once there was me ’ is about the communal riot of 1984.  The book is partially autobiographical narrated from the author’...