Book Review: Anything for you Ma’am – an IITian’s love story, by Tushar Raheja

Just finished reading “Anything for you Ma’am”, a book by Tushar Raheja a IIT grad, who wrote this book in just 3 months (Fast isn’t it ?). To say it in short it’s a typical bollywood flick, perfect script for a 3 hour popcorn movie.

The author follows a “this month that year” form of narrating the story, which does confuse initially, but you get along with it as you proceed. Tushar is quite good in describing the details of the situation but sometimes you feel like he’s just beating around the bush.

The best part of the story was the description of a candle light dinner and the beer (or vodka whatever may be) splashing incident on profs, rest all seemed very filmy. Typical scenes like you see in movies, like in laws causing problems, lies, troubles, etc all form the climax. The speed of the book is quite good, only towards the ends that you feel that it has been let loose. Actually I thought this book could have rather been named “Life full of coincidences” thats because of the no of co incidences in the tale, particularly the way in which Tejas meets Shreya for the first time at the movie hall.

Now you would be wondering what’s so IITian in this story? Well, apart from the fact the author is an IITian, and our hero in the book ‘Tejas’ is also an IITian, nothing else is. I mean, remove IIT and put any engineering college’s name and the plot would still remain the same.

The book is about an IIT Delhi student, Tejas in his final year of Industrial Engineering who is in love with his sister’s friend Shreya. Their first meet is a conclave of coincidences at a movie hall, a well thought out dream, the two who then agree to keep in touch through mails. The girl is in Chennai and the guy in Delhi. If you seen Hrithik starer “Mujhse Dosti Karogi” then you feel déjà vu on this. But, there’s no second female in this plot, thankfully !! They mail, then talk eventually fall for each other. Tejas now has to meet Shreya, because her parents have learnt about the relationship. On how he does it… you’ve got to read the book for that.

The book however, is quite a good read finished it in some 4-5 days. Although you don’t feel anything out of movies in the book, you do not feel like putting it down. At 100 bucks it is quite a paisa vasool.