Hakuna Matata - Life is Calling!

'Hakuna Matata' what a wonderful Swahili phrase which means ‘Don't Worry Be Happy’.

 Novelist Srinivas Yanamandra's first Indian Fiction ‘Hakuna Matata:Life is calling’ was published in the year 2010.

 The whole story revolves around Kaushik Akella and his paramour Anushka.

 Kaushik a Chartered accountant working at Gen-next Bank known for his mantra Hakuna Matata and his good sense of humor makes him loved by all and that's how he meets Anushka,an effervescent.Kaushik and Anushka to be wed-locked.Life is not the same there comes a break to the going on good life.

 Malign Terror Attack took place at the Taj Hotel.Mumbai was Terrorized.Pronoy, Vikrant and others of the ‘Anti-terror Squad’ suspect Anushka and Kaushik to be involved with the Riff-Raffs.Hence,the twosome had to undergo an intricate or a rigmarole investigation.

 After an interminable interrogation the ‘Anti-Terror Squad’ came to a conclusion that it was a phishing online fraud.The terrorists had deceived Anushka and had put the duo into trouble.This is the gist of the Novelette.

Not a must read but an average read.It is a predictable thriller in which the reader will mundane after reading a few chapters. The chapters have been titled with apt global proverbs such as ‘‘Fatti maschi, parole femmine’’(Italian proverb)-Facts are male, words are female, ‘‘A posse ad esse non valet consequentia.’’(Latin Proverb)- From a things possibility one cannot be certain of its reality etc.

The author has narrated the 15 days of the protagonist Kaushik's life with a very simple language. To sum up, the book could have outpaced by dwindling the nonentities.

Aapti Patwardhan