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What a Loser: Dreams Own and Borrowed

Sneha reviews Pankaj Dubey’s What a Loser, exclusively for Different Truths.

Author: Pankaj Dubey

My Ratings: ☆☆☆

The story revolves around Pandey Anil Kumar Sinha (PAKS), who comes to Delhi, with some dreams of his own and some borrowed from his clerk father.

The story revolves around Pandey Anil Kumar Sinha (PAKS), who comes to Delhi, with some dreams of his own and some borrowed from his clerk father.

On top of it is to become an IAS officer, but how his life turned into chaos due to his impulsive actions and decisions.

He fell in the trap of politics of DUSU and lost his friends, who supported him first when he reached Delhi. And soon he lost his own focus and at last, he had to let go of his cool name PAKS. What will happen next? Will he ever get what he really wants? You have to read it to know more.

He fell in the trap of politics of DUSU and lost his friends, who supported him first when he reached Delhi. And soon he lost his own focus and at last, he had to let go of his cool name PAKS.

An interesting read. Language is simple yet flawless.  The narrative is a bit slow-paced. Sometimes PAKS action make you smile, sometime it will make you angry about his ignorance and stupidity.  But you will not stop yourself from falling in love with Innocent PAKS, by the end of the novel.

The description of Biharis maybe make you feel like you are watching a biased movie but being set in the ’90s, I guess its reality of that time.

A fabulous read!

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Sneha Prakash Thakur
Sneha is an entrepreneur, teacher, feminist, literary critic, book reviewer, writer, culinarian, mother, wife and daughter. She is certified in Feminist Studies at IIT Madras and holds Master's degree in English Literature from IGNOU. She runs her online classes, and writes columns and reviews for different websites and magazines. She writes stories, which are hugely admired. She is an avid reader.

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