Zaroorat Se Zyada: It's never too much

Aarav is back from Frankfurt, but he isn't alone. He has brought with him a crushing sense of failure and a hidden, mechanical ritual that consumes his nights. Every late-night delivery is a desperate attempt to swallow the emptiness left by a life that folded like a house of cards. He is a ghost in his own childhood home, hiding behind cardboard boxes and a mounting pile of secrets. But when a forced encounter at a support group brings him face-to-face with Sheetal, a woman from his past, his carefully constructed armour begins to crack. Sheetal is no longer the girl he knew; she is a guardian of boundaries who sees through his self-deprecating jokes and his "between things" facade. As their lives intersect in the quiet, spice-scented kitchens of Delhi and the shadowy corners of old bookstores, a deeper tension emerges. Can Aarav truly break free from his coping mechanisms, or is he simply trading one addiction for another? When a massive job offer from London arrives, promising the prestige he once craved, Aarav is forced to choose: return to the man who ran, or stay with the version of himself that is finally beginning to heal. - In a city that never stops moving, and a hunger that never seems to end, how do you know when you finally have... enough?

Pages: 26, Paperback, Notion Press