This World is the greatest gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong ~ Swami Vivekananda.
A flower of any arbitrary garden prospers to blossom mesmerizingly before it reaches it’s tipping point; likewise every aspiring and ambitious mind likes to flourish with equivalent education and culture facing all the uncertainties of life.
The ‘last bloom’ classifies the life of a simplistic yet elegant middle-class girl Priya, who boasts of her dignified primary education which she has experienced since childhood; with lots of hopes and urge of unfulfilled aspirations she joins the prestigious and sagacious Baranpur university. Meanwhile, to her utter dismay and disappointment she bewilders that most of her fellow classmates do not harmonize with her level of intellect or 
diligence. As a grave matter of consequence she encounters a lot of tedious , capricious challenges from most of her covetous classmates who many a time feels jealous cum insecure to her level of diligent potency and pragmatic viewpoint .
The story shares an equivocal characteristics of anguish, animosity, benevolence, camaraderie, déjà vu, fraternity, gullibility, ingenuity, lassitude, maneuver, nonchalance, opulence, pomposity, preposterousness, timidity, ubiquitous presence of underlying truth, covetousness, passion and endurance.
A meticulous observance of all the characters engulfing Priya displays a subtle picture of different personalities whom any self-confident individual adjudges in their day to day life. Let’s have a vivid elaboration of all the characters :
Anwesha: One who tries to be diplomatic by making both ends meet.
Ranela: flamboyant, babelicious, ambitious, straightforward
Ashi: skeptical, outspoken, a true rebellion
Keya: amiable, analytical
Sweta: one who get swayed by emotion, pseudo innocent
Swaha: one who gets influenced easily and has no self- control of feelings
Suvo: power savvy , dispute monger, dicey , leader
Gautam, Tarak, Jeet: follower, people whose aspirations gets bifurcated due to altercations,
Kailash: a blind-eye party follower, tries to pay attention by giving involuntary/ abusive speech
Mrinmoy : One who loves to speak the truth but fears to face the consequence of it
Ratul: flirtatious, witty
Sthanu: effeminate, spineless
Vivek: ingenious, sarcastic, explorer, one who understands life and its underlying pros and cons.
The crux of the story revolves around political hara-kiri at college campus creating havoc mayhem to the student’s educational system . Beautifully escalates how an aspiring student’s mind gets tear off between participating in pseudo social service and building one’s own career. People say ‘ Time and Tide waits for no one’, yet we anoint time being the biggest excuse of almost every failure or unfulfilled dream. Priya, the main character of Last Bloom faces all the bottlenecks of being a apolitical outspoken student amongst the uncanny political atmosphere.
Author Poulomi Sengupta
Here the author has beautifully articulated every notion of a sophomore psychology with a touch of empathy . This book has got all the ingredients of inspiring and igniting a student’s flexible and fluctuating mind . This is quite often adjudged that a person laments of what he /she has missed while thriving for pseudo- political success at the blooming stage of his/her career.
The name ‘Last Bloom’ thus sounds rhythmic with the flow pattern of the story where the flower alike student’s mind gets bloomed with certain insight and intuition while choosing study over pseudo pompous politics.
‘Smell The Cheese Often So You Know When It Is Getting Old’ ~Dr Spencer Johnson. In the book ‘The Last Bloom’, this cheese plausibly resembles good education, one’s prominent career and in total one’s ubiquitous presence of life and energy. But our own pseudo posthumous glory resists us to accustom to the ever changing – blooming world.
As we all know Charity begins at home~ So this book vindicates a invaluable question ~ Are we hoodwinking our own career and life in the name of pseudo philanthropy? Reading this book will definitely guide a curious mind in following the ethos of success.
Shades of yellow dispersed throughout scarlet petal of the book-cover resembles positivity and knowledge amongst gaga cacophony of college politics which is very common in every college campus. The IIT alumni author, Poulomi Sengupta, tries to play the role of a flamboyant messiah by representing a perfect portrait of how to concentrate on study without diverging one’s focus, surpassing all the undercurrent uncanny tensions which one may experience in his/her serendipitous life.
Book Details:-
| Author: | Poulomi Sengupta | ||
| Publisher: | Frog Books | Publishing Year: | 2016 |
| ISBN-13: | 9789352015474 | ISBN-10: | 9352015479 |
| Cover: | Paperback | No. Of Pages: | 394 |
| MRP: | Rs 375 | Buy From: | Amazon.in |
My Verdict:
My Ratings:
4
A good education - bestows values and morals to motivate one's spirit over the certain/uncertain challenges of life. But to have a holistic development of the entire nation/society, people have to change their dogmatic way of thought/preference/perception. This will take time and effort both. From Narayn Murthi's "A Better India A Better World" to Poulomi Sengupta's "The Last Bloom" - this consistent yet inexhaustible approach is going on to aware the beloved readers that 'change is only constant' and thus a differential change in perception is essential to reach the state of integral development.
