Story-in-Short:
How a love story once hates saved lives in a Communal Riot? Should community, language or tradition be the obstructions for true love from blossoming?
How cruel can a married girl’s destiny be to throw her into prostitution?
Have you ever attended an uninvited marriage reception with your beloved and got caught by the hosts?
Why a boy decided to spend his entire life in a mental asylum?
Why a girl at midnight runs away from her family?
How worse it can be if you are caught by your girlfriend’s parents while 
kissing her?
I AM DEAD BUT MY HEART BEATS is a fascinating saga of love, education, community, hatred, sacrifices and hopw. It’s about four youngsters from different communities speaking different languages – Aryan, Anshika Zahid and Swati. Get ready for a heart-breaking journey of a complete real life story.
In My View:
Just Imagine that you are travelling in a train and a hot passenger comes and claims her seat, in the berth opposite to yours. How would you feel? Won’t you be excited to talk to her and develop a friendship with her? Well, here author Priyank gets a similar story. He gets an emotional story that interestingly begins during a train journey but ends up tragically.
This story is a heart-rendering story of Aryan and Anshika, both engineering students who meet during a train journey and fall in love at the first sight itself. Although none of them confess it yet they develop feelings for each other. Finally, confessions come up one fine day and this marks the beginning of their relationship.
There is another story that comes-up later and runs simultaneously with the story of Aryan and Anshika. This story is of Zahid and Swati who go against their family’s opposition and have an inter-caste marriage. This too is a touching story, portraying the struggles of both the lovers.
Aryan and Anshika, on another hand, get into a relationship. They begin spending their time together, cajole and cuddle each other and sketch plans for their future. But will this saga of true love exist further? What does destiny have in store for both these lovers? Grab your copies now and explore this love story in depth.
Over-all: The cover page of the book is eye-catching and so is its title ‘I am Dead but My Heart Beats’. Both of them are enough to attract a reader’s attention. The narration style of the author is fine. The plots in the book too are good. The author has done a good job by appropriately inscribing poetic lines in between the story. The later part of the story where-in Zahid and Swati go to Muzzafarnagar, to save Zahid’s parents, despite the communal violence, is really well-written. The story is appealing and makes a reader smile, cry and worry with the flow of the story. And this, I feel, is the best part of the book.
Speaking about of the drawbacks, the novel has a few grammatical errors. Also, at places the story falls week. In the second chapter, the author has written about the left over article in India Today magazine which is unnecessary and should have been omitted. I am very sure that the author will keep these things in mind during all his future projects.
Apart from these mistakes, the story is good. It is different from all the casual love stories, something that the readers-at-large would enjoy reading.
| Author | Priyank | ||
| Publisher | Teenage Publishers | Publication Year | 2014 |
| ISBN-13 | 9788192932439 | ISBN-10 | 8192932435 |
| Cover | Paperback | Number of Pages | 224 |
| MRP | Rs. 140 | Buy From |  |
(Original Source: http://suyashscorner.blogspot.in)
My Verdict
Considering everything, I would rate the book with 4 out of 5 stars. Good luck to the author and hope he comes up with many more interesting stories!
