Name: Unforeseen: A battle for his daughter’s life
Author: Chandan Sen Gupta
Genre: Thriller
India became a medical hub for the past few years with quality services, treatments, and facilities which are comparatively cheap attract a large sum of people from foreign countries to avail these services. This thriller was written on the backdrop of this scenario.
Unforeseen by Chandan Sen Gupta is the story of Yousuf, his wife Mariam, and their daughter Ayesha, who have traveled from Pakistan to a hospital in Gurgaon for a liver transplant for their daughter. She is been suffering from a congenital liver disease from birth, for which the only treatment left is a transplant of the liver. The donor is her mother itself. Yousuf who is a teacher invested his all savings in this trip to make this surgery happen. But the unforeseen array of incidents which eventually makes the life of this family in a foreign land to suffering.
As they travel in Samjhauta express from Wagah near Lahore to Atari, Yousuf comes across Pakistani militants who are traveling on their own in an independent coupe. Yousuf accidentally witnesses their getaway and, thus, one of the infiltrators, warns him that he will come after Yousuf if he reveals this to anyone. Yousuf remains silent owing to the urgency of the trip as he has only one aim, which is the successful surgery of his daughter. However one of the infiltrators returns to silent the family forever as he cannot take any chances which will cause failure of his mission. Further to the horror of the family, Yousuf gets implicated for a murder in a hotel at Delhi. In addition to this, the family is accused of visa rule violation which causes a chase of local police and Pakistani militants for the lives of this family.
To clear his name, Yousuf travels to Kashmir to expose the infiltrators and the real culprits. But he gets caught by the conspirators instead. They drugged him and thrown Yousuf into the river Chenab to drown. Meanwhile Yousuf’s wife Mariam also gets attacked. The next part of this story answers the questions that whether this family survives this multiple attacks and whether the girl gets the treatment and live a healthy life.
Another good quality of this story is, despite Pakistan being imprinted as a hub of terrorism, the author describes it as just another country with common people who wants to live in peace. He also gives an insight into the historical facts which created unrest in Kashmir. The culture and lifestyle values of the people in different regions of India are also explored through the eyes of Yousuf.
The plot is cleverly woven with an accurate development of all the characters with adequate details. The emotions of the protagonist are explored to a next level by the author through the edge of his innocence. The hand of politics which turn the events to upside down are also described through this story. The way the story was told is enough to keep the reader on the edge of the seat all the time. After all, the author gives an optimistic message to reinstate humanity and love above all the hatred which will be the base of our co-existence and secular culture.
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