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What's Next?

Shina Kalra

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Thank You!

This book was really difficult to write without motivation from my dear ones who supported

me on every step. There were times when I

felt like not working on it anymore and left all hopes but all my family members, my mom &

dad, my brothers Kartik and Satvik kept on pushing me, sometimes by taunting me and

sometimes by pushing me to follow my passion. My friends Vikas Shinde, Anik

Sharma, Gaurav Aggarwal, Harsh Mehra and Sarita Singh supported me throughout the

journey of this book. I hope efforts of all of us

show some colors just like rainbow shows after rain.


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Foreword

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough"

-- Mae West Our lives are governed by our feelings.

These days, sadness, frustration, sorrows,

disappointment, anger are the most frequent once and that of love being the

rarest. Love makes us feel wanted, it stops the

ticking clock for us, it makes us feel complete. Love is just like that relieving cup of coffee in

the monsoon evenings, it is just the bright sun

in the Winters and the cosy evening moon in the harsh summers. It is that powerful feeling

that we are always trying to find in the outer, unknown world. Love melts the tougher, inner

us and makes us deliver the best of ourselves in life.

Shouldn't this one life be filled with lots of

love? Is finding a love story an easy task? How

do we know if we're in love? How do we know if we're with the right person?

My friend, Shina Kalra shares a story in the chapters ahead, where she highlights the

experience of a young girl and her journey to find the love of her life. Her love life is as

straight as a spiral and as simple as the

atomic and nuclear laws.

Every step of her life is governed by a question, 'What's next?'


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The book has been written with sheer

passion and is a result of Shina's hard work and love for writing. It is a wonderful read for

all and I personally and without any bias, that the story will create a lasting impression on

the minds and hearts of the readers.

Read it with love!!


What's Next? Shina Kalra

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Chapter 1

It was a new day for her at a new place. She joined a new office. It was a beautiful

beginning. Drashti‟s presence gave her

confidence in entirely alien environment. As she got in, there were guards to check Identity

cards. In the absence of an identity issued by the organization, she presented her voters

card, and the guard let her in. She walked a few steps, and was greeted with greenery all

around. There was a beautiful garden with many colorful flowers. In the center there was

a big square shaped pond, a fountain

decorated its heart, splashed in a spectacular show of light. It was magnificent. She was

close to nature, and standing there, she felt that the fresh and cool air had been washing

the dust and sweat of the journey. She was amazed by the beauty and architecture of the

place, and was fascinated by its rejuvenating

aura. That place was just beautiful! It's the first word which can best describe that place.

She went inside the building and found it equally appealing. She entered the gate and

saw coffee shop on right, and ice cream parlor on the left. The consideration shown by the

organizations towards its employees was apparent. She reached a point where an

employee had to punch in the card to get the



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glass door open. So she looked here and there

to see what's next. It was major question of her life all the time: What's next!!

A bulky lady was sitting at the reception, which helped them get inside after issuing

them a visitor‟s card. Drashti was her friend from the previous company, where she had

worked in her home town, and when they were looking for a job in the metropolis, they were

ecstatic when their wish came true, and both

of them cleared the interview of same organization. They were close to each other,

and there were no secrets between them. They both thought so but who knows! God knows!!

They took the lift and reached fourth floor. She was still trying to figure out things while

entering the door. Her mind was abuzz.

Excitement of new place, and hope of making new friends, mingled with the fear of losing

herself in the crowd. Losing herself in the crowd was her biggest fear ever. She was quite

different from others. Her name was Sarah, which means princess of the world. So how

can princess be one just like all others? It is just her name's definition but she had

different strategy altogether. She always heard

from everyone to "go with the flow" but her thinking was quite different. According to her,

only dead fishes go with the flow which she definitely wasn‟t. She is one of her kind and

she has to prove it. With all these things in her head, both of them met representatives

from the human resources, did some paperwork, and were sent to the auditorium.

The word 'auditorium' gave her a lousy feeling,

like in college, where it meant going to that big



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hall, with so many chairs, to attend a boring

lecture; chairs that climbed infinitely, from the stage towards the back, like the ascent of hell.

But that place was not at all like it, which surprised her. It was a huge room with few

chairs, lined up in front of three long stairs towards the back, which extended from one

corner to the other. It was similar to the stairs near basketball or football court for audience.

The floor was carpeted with green grass,

which was sprinkled with water, and shimmered. In front of the stairs, besides the

podium, a huge table was kept, that had plates burdened with chips and sandwiches,

kept for the new hires. And, there they were, sitting on the stairs, waiting for the so called

lecturer to arrive. Slowly but steadily, the

room got occupied with new hires. Just in few minutes the empty chairs were occupied by

people from HR's (who hire and fire people, and have coarse faces) and apart from them

there was a person to introduce all new hires to the new company.

That person started acknowledging work and process for which all of them were hired

and gave them some papers to fill. They

seemed to be so many pages to fill with information and signatures all over. It was

quite tiring and boring but was important. No one read those papers and just signed them

all. Done ! There on she embarked her new ride to a

new place with a friend accompanied between an unknown bunches of people around. There

were many people around who turned up for

that day, that day was called Induction day. A


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