The beauty of this emotion is that as a child you are loved by all and then you realise that you can also love. “During this period, an altogether new feeling of love comes into being. Bokil, a diploma holder in electronics and radio engineering turned author, describes that stage as “growing and coming to terms with life”. The story, revolving around a 14-year-old school-going boy residing in the suburbs of Mumbai with the Emergency of 1975 forming the backdrop, is about adolescent struggles and love. The reason being that good writing always strikes a sensitive chord with the reader or at least leads to nostalgia about the years gone by. The English translation of Milind Bokil’s Marathi novel “Shala” (Harper Collins), which means school, by Vikrant Pande will make the reader revisit that brief period of life which will never return.
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