I got 'Bombay Rains,Bombay Girls' yesterday through Homeshop18.I completed the whole novel in 6 hours.I hold special affection for the author as he is from my hometown Ranchi :)Adi,a teenager from Ranchi makes it to the prestigious Grant Medical College and lands in Big Bad Bombay.Initially,he has a huge inferiority complex and considers his success to be fluke. Adi makes friends with Harsha,Rajeev,Sam,Pheru and Toshi who are all different from each other,variegated in their own terms but still care for each other.As time passes,Adi becomes one of the most popular guys of his batch and regains his confidence.Heart broken once, Adi finds love again but as things run smoothly for him,tragedy strucks. Can Adi come out of this emotional trauma?A series of incidences that happen with him and his gang make them ponder about life and emerge as better persons.A truly inspiring book for both medicos and non-medicos and how we can rise as individuals.I really liked the way the author has portrayed all the characters especially Toshi,Adi and Pheru but I feel that the story has remained incomplete somewhere as the readers would like to know if Pheru passed his exam or not,did Adi and Isha get married or not.Otherwise,the book makes for a delightful read.An entertaining book for medicos :) "Bombay Rains Bombay Girls" follows Adi from his arrival in Bombay through a few years of medical school and the lessons he learns. The title comes from what one of Adi's friends tells him are the two things he has to see in Bombay.Adi is from a village in Bihar and is off on his way to becoming a doctor at a prestigious medical school in Bombay. The book opens with him and his father getting into Bombay and their first experience is when their taxi driver hits another car in traffic and the other driver comes over with a knife and beats the taxi driver.Very early Adi gains a reputation for being smart and cool under pressure, after he and the guy next to him get caught by the teacher turning back during class to look up the skirts of the girls behind, and Adi's quick thinking in helping his friend answer the teacher's question about what she was lecturing on.As Adi progresses through college he becomes more and more popular and gets along with almost everyone, but the story just has a core group of his friends and a couple of girls.He gets his heart broken by one girl, but then slowly develops a relationship with another, who teaches him the importance of doing what he thinks is right, using Atticus Finch as an example.Adi gets to put this into action when the residents go on strike about conditions at the hospital and he has the choice of pleasing his striking friends or helping dying patients who look up to him as a doctor, even though he's still a student. His explanation to the husband of a patient about letting her die for the greater good of the hospital really hit home to him.But this gets tested later on when he and his friends witness a murder, but know they can't do anything since the murderer is a high ranking politician.The book isn't too bad, a very fast read, partly due to very narrow columns of text making each page quite short. I had a lot of trouble keeping track of time in the novel, and how much time passed between events. It felt very inconsistent. Bose begins and ends the book with a chapter each in first person, but in between it's all third person, however I kept getting confused by that and too much felt like it was narrated from Adi and then suddenly he'd be referred to in the third person again.Overall, not bad, but not absolutely fantastic, either.
What do You think about Bombay Rains, Bombay Girls (2000)?
The book could have been much better and relevant.Just an addition to shelf book.
—Platty412
This will forever stay as the most amazing book I have ever read.
—butterfly
