A Story of Love and longing
An army doctor who has everything confronts the unnamed emptiness within after the pandemic strips her life bare.
Kalyani has everything a life is supposed to need: a respected career as an army gynaecologist, a devoted husband, a healthy son, financial security. None of it quiets the hollow feeling she cannot name. Somewhere beneath her achievements lies a wound she has never examined — a childhood shaped by parents who wanted a son, a persistent sense of being unworthy of love, a marriage to Kunal that should feel like enough but somehow does not.
Then the pandemic arrives and takes Kunal with it. Stripped of her routines, her certainties, and the identity she has built around them, Kalyani is left alone with grief, anger, and the questions she has been avoiding for decades. Gaytri Koley traces this inward descent with precision, refusing the consolations of easy epiphany. The journey Kalyani makes is painful precisely because the answers she finds cannot be borrowed from anyone else.
For readers who have found success and still felt the distance between what they have and what they hoped to feel, this novel offers not reassurance but recognition.
-:ABOUT THE BOOK:- Happiness-everyone is chasing it. But what if you seem to have it all but happiness still feels out of reach? Kalyani's life appears perfect. An accomplished gynecologist in the army, she has earned respect, status, and success. Her husband, Kunal, is a devoted and charismatic surgeon. Their son is thriving. She has family, friends, financial security-everything that should make a life complete. So why does an unnamed emptiness shadow her days? Is it a wound from childhood? A quiet sense of rejection because her parents longed for a son? A buried feeling of being unloved-or unworthy of love? Why does Kunal's affection feel insufficient, as though something deeper is missing? And if she questions his love, does she truly know him-or even herself? Then the pandemic shatters her world. With Kunal gone, Kalyani is stripped of certainty and left alone with grief, fear, anger, and isolation. Forced to confront life and death, she begins a painful journey inward. What if the identity she has clung to is only an illusion? What if the ego that shaped her life is not who she truly is? In losing everything, Kalyani begins to discover the only truth that cannot be taken away-that beyond fear, beyond identity, beyond loss... there is love. And perhaps, that is where happiness has always been.
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