You are the best Wife- A true love story by author Ajay Kr. Pandey

How many you are fond of reading love stories??? I am fond of love stories..Every person has their own way of expressing their love to their loved ones.. Some has a filmy style (like me) to express their love whereas some fail to find any words to express love..But LOVE is LOVE...It can expressed in any form..
For some it requires a single day to express their LOVE..for some it takes years by...
Love can happen to any one..
Love has no boundaries...
Love teaches a person to live for others..

Same has happened with Ajay Kr Pandey and Bhavna Pradhan....
Two different person with dissimilarity and totally different ideology..

Yes, I am talking about the book "YOU ARE THE BEST HUSBAND" by the author Mr. Ajay Kr Pandey. This book is based on the true love story of the author Ajay Kr Pandey and Bhavna Pradhan. It is a story about how people find true love and comfort in dissimilarities; about how two people with absolutely different ideologies meet and fall in love.The author has written his heart out in this book.The story is about their struggle from the day Ajay saw Bhavna for the first time till their marriage and that too in a humorous way. This book is an inspiration for all the people in LOVE.

Ajay Kr Pandey-(Brahman by birth) belonged from a conservative family and as a student was very confused who himself doesn't know what he want to do in his life. Following the old age path of Engineering he also joined  the race and worked hard for getting admissions into an IIT but landed up at IERT(Institute of Engineering and Rural Technology, Allahabad). There he happened to meet Bhavna Pradhan and fallen in love with her. 

Bhavna Pradhan (Kayastha by birth) was an independent girl and knew what she wanted from her life. By nature she was totally opposite to Ajay.

The book starts with great humour- right from first day of the college, hostel ragging, the fresher's party, the coaching class, Ajay's approaching style to Bhavna, his proposal, accepting the proposal, convincing their parents for their marriage till their marriage.

The middle part of the story which was convincing their parents for their marriage reminds me of the movie "2 states"(you will come to know when you will read the book).

All was going well with Ajay and Bhavna until Bhavna got infected with dengue fever which reached its severity and left Ajay halfway through their journey. Ajay broke from inside but the last words of Bhavna "YOU ARE THE BEST HUSBAND" created an innate strength in him which inspired him to live on.

Though their love story had a tragic ending but each and every phrase and sentence used by Bhavna was very very inspiring. She lived in moments and not in days or years. She taught Ajay to live for others. Ajay wrote this book to immortalize the memories of Bhavna in the heart of many readers.

"There are two kinds of personalities. There are those who have everything and still complains as if they have nothing. And there are those who lose everything and act like life has given them everything. Sometimes both these personalities exists in the same soul. Kill the first one, I love the first one. "- An inspiring paragraph by Bhavna.  

                                                        Pic courtesy: Google image

So, Friends what are you waiting for.??? Grab a copy of yours now and get inspired. You can order a copy from Amazon.in from the link given in my blog....

DISCLAIMER:
I have done this reviewing on my own. No company is associated with me for this review.I just love this book so I thought to share my views about the book and the characters associated with it.

Road trip to Bhutan Part II- Phuentsholing to Thimpu

Hope my readers have enjoyed my earlier post.  Well let me continue with my journey from Phuentsholing to Thimpu.....

On 14^th April 2016 we halted in Phuentsholing and enjoyed the evening there. For entering Thimpu individual passes are to be obtained as well as vehicle pass.

Next day morning we hurried for the permit. The immigration office which issues the permit for Thimpu and Paro opens at 9.30 am. This pass permitted to enter only the Thimphu and Paro regions of Bhutan. To travel further inside Bhutan you need to again get the permit for other locations separately from Thimphu. Immigration forms are available in the office itself.

Documents to be carried for individual pass:

 1) Photocopy of Voter I-card/Passport

 2) 2 copies of Passport photo

After obtaining the individual pass it was mandatory to obtain car pass as well.  For obtaining the car pass we had to go to Road & Safety department (RSTA) which was a kilometer away from the immigration office.

One interesting instance, we were lost in finding the RSTA office. But the people over there are so friendly and helpful. We just asked a local taxi driver about the route to RSTA office, he asked us to follow his car and helped us to reach the office. It was just a kilometer away from the immigration office and we were moving here and there, round and round finding the office.

After reaching RSTA we came to know that pollution certificate is also required and Bhutan Government follows a strict policy and it’s a mandate. And we didn’t have pollution certificate. We were so disappointed. But we didn’t give up. We crossed the border and tried to find any local office in Jaigaon that issues the pollution certificate. We were struggling here and there and finally we got one and it took around half an hour to issue the certificate. Huuuffff…!!! What a relief. But our struggle wasn’t yet over, we had to rush back to RSTA as it would close down by 3.00 pm and it was already 2.00 pm. We reached there by 2.20 and finally with all documents in hand we filled up the form for the car permit. They follow a certain procedure before issuing the car permit:

An officer checked all our documents – our individual permits, Voter I card, Original Car documents then she signed the form and directed us to the cash counter to pay a certain amount for the permit(the amount depends upon the size of the vehicle), our was Alto K10 so the amount we had to pay was Rs. 234 and with the receipt we went to collect our main permit and finally after the hue and rush the permit was in our hand.

Documents to be carried for the pass:

1) Individual permits

2)  Photocopy of the RC

3) Insurance copy

3)Pollution certificate copy

4) Driver’s license copy.

Note: Their lunch timing is from 1.00 to 2.00 pm. And no pass will be given after 3.00 pm.

We had our lunch in a local restaurant there and without wasting  any more time we headed towards Thimpu. We started at around 3.00 pm. It’s just 172 km to Thimpu from Phuentsholing which normally takes 2-3 hours in plain road but as it’s a hilly place we estimated it would take around 5 – 6 hours. Our excitement level was high. At a point we lose our hopes as we didn’t had our pollution certificate but “WHERE THERE IS A WILL THERE IS A WAY”- it’s proved.

 There were six checkpoints where they check all the documents and permits.

  

After crossing 1 -3 km our phones stopped working “SERVICE UNAVAILABLE.” Google map also stopped working so what we did, whenever we saw any local person walking on the road or any local shop we stopped and inquired whether we were going in the right direction and the above route direction board mentioned in the picture helped us a lot.

                                                       Pic: View of Phuentsholing city

It was a sunny day in Phuentsholing but after travelling after 1 hour what we saw infront of us the road was covered with fog, we could see nothing, we slowed down our speed and taking God’s name we proceeded towards it and entered the foggy area. We were surprised to find that the vehicles don’t blow horns even in the highway. We had to keep our eyes and ears alert.

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We were going up and up..From one mountain to another..Ohhh my God, it was like we  were swinging on the clouds. We had never seen such beauty..

Pic: Road to Thimpu

It was growing dark and still 100 kms left, we two alone on an unknown highway. We were little bit scared and my husband said to me " Lets go back." I said, "Are you mad, we have traveled almost 80 kms, we won't back out." Showing some courage we continued our journey.  Then comes a check point where the officials checked all our documents. Here where the permits came into action. Checking was done and we were allowed to go.

We noticed that a tourist cab stopped and the driver was dealing with the officials with the documents of his tourists. My husband heard them, they were also going to Thimpu. We then decided to follow to the car. After some kilometer there was another check point. After the work done we halted for a while for some refreshment as the other car also halted. We didn't spoke to the driver of the other car but he came to know that we were following his car. He was so generous, he started his car and halted at the point we halted and said to us, "Follow my car." We were overwhelmed by his generosity.

We crossed another 4 check point. At the final check point there was a diversion, one way goes to Thimpu and the other way goes to Paro. The distance was almost same from the point. Our destination was slowly and slowly coming nearer. 

And finally, we were on top of the world when we saw the gate "WELCOME TO THIMPU."

We felt as if we won a gold medal in the Olympics. We came out of the car and shouted out of excitement and happiness. We also thanked the driver. We clicked some photos as well. It was 7.30 pm and hotel was already booked and taking the help of the local people there we reached our hotel. The city looked so beautiful at night.

After checking in we ordered for a cup of tea. My husband hold my hand and said two words "THANK  YOU." I said," Why Thank you???." He said,"This Thank You is for the faith you showed in me, for the support and for the courage."

Lucky wheel

Thimpu main Gate

Pic: Road to Paro

Road trip to BHUTAN from GUWAHATI

Road to BHUTAN-

Today I am going to share my adventurous road journey from GUWAHATI to BHUTAN.
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My husband likes hilly places and I love beaches. The trip to Bhutan was totally his idea. He himself did all the findings, printed out the route and maps using GOOGLE MAP. I was totally unaware of this. I was thinking that two more families would be also joining us. But on 12th April 2017, I got to know that only we two would be going. Hearing this my reaction was, " Oh my GOD,this is a very very bad idea.I will not go. Lets's go to some known place like Kerela or Goa." I denied for the trip saying that it would be dangerous and nobody from our known source have traveled to Bhutan through road.But he was over excited for this trip and just asked me one question ," Do you trust me??"Huh...gathering come courage I said YES for the trip...

 Well this was the madness of my loving Husband..Now let me brief about the journey>>>>>

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THE JOURNEY - 

 “14^th April 2016” at around 9.30 am we started off to Bhutan from Guwahati on our Alto K10 vxi. Our partner for the whole trip was Google map. Thanks to Google map and Vodafone network.

We took the way through Saraighat Bridge crossing the mighty Brahmaputra. Then we crossed Mirza and reached Chaygaon, a small town in Kamrup district. Then we entered Goalpara district through Highway 17 and reached Agia. The roads leading to our destination was smooth enough and we didn't find any difficulty during our journey.

                                                         Pic: Road to Goalpara: 

Without entering the Goalpara city from Agia we proceeded towards Bongaigaon district. Agia -> Jogighopa(through Naranarayan Setu) -> Abhayapuri -> North Salmara -> Bongaigaon Civil Hospital.We entered Bongaigaon city as it was the shortcut to touch the highway to Chirang district.We halted in Bongaigaon city for a while and had our lunch.

Then we started our journey again. From Chirang District we entered West Bengal through Srirampur gate and then we headed towards Alipurduar through Highway 31C, then Gossaingaon=> Hasimara through highway 317 and reached the town named Jaigaon in West Bengal which is the border town to Bhutan.We were little bit scared when we were passing by Hasimara as we had to cross a forest.The forest area was about 1 km - 2 km. My husband increased the speed of our car as dusk was falling rapidly. We were relaxed to see a small board " State Bank of India welcome you to Jaigaon." What a sense of relief.

At around 5.30 we reached Jaigaon. And guess what we were standing infront of the Indo-Bhutan Border gate. Near the gate stands a board which said "WELCOME TO THE ROYAL KINGDOM OF BHUTAN." Ohhhhhh myyyyyyy God.... Actually we were going to enter Bhutan. We did it.....It just can't be explained in words what we were feeling at that time.

                                                     Pic: Indo-Bhutan border gate

Time to enter Bhutan. At the border gate there is no requirement for any permit. The town which touched the Indo-Bhutan border is Phuentsholing. Our first word entering Bhutan was "Waooohhhhh" We were lost in our emotions of joy and happiness.We were speechless seeing the beauty and cleanliness of the town. Suddenly one of our phone rang and we were amazed to find the Indian Telecom network working in Phuentsholing. It was already 6'o clock in the evening and Hotel was already booked by my husband. Somehow we managed to find our hotel and checked in. The people out there were so helpful. A peaceful and happy atmosphere existed in Phuentsholing.  

Some notable points: No vehicles horns are allowed in Bhutan and no overtaking of vehicles.

It was an 8 hour journey. Though from inside I was a little bit scared but when we saw the board which said " WELCOME TO THE ROYAL KINGDOM OF BHUTAN" our happiness knew no limits. 

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      Well this was our journey from Guwahati to Phuentsholing. Hope my readers have enjoyed reading it.Stay tuned to my blog for experiencing my adventurous journey from Phuentsholing to Thimpu and Paro, the two beautiful cities of Bhutan.