She nearly died. Sixteen days later, everyone who loves her gathers in one room to hear the whole story, from the very beginning.
That single opening line has carried Whose Love Story: Chitra, Karna, or Both, the new novel by Amazon bestselling author Tejash Shah, to the top of the Amazon Kindle charts in India. Within days of release, the book reached #1 in three categories: Parenting & Relationships, Indian Writing, and Religious & Inspirational Fiction.
A Love Story Told by Everyone Except the Lovers
The novel is built as a story inside a story. Karna stands at the window of a new sea-facing home while his wife Chitra recovers on the bed behind him. Around them, their chosen family has gathered: friends who became brothers, sisters and parents over the years.
One by one, each of them tells their part. How Karna and Chitra met. What they survived. What they never said to each other. Each version changes the one before it. And two people are still on their way, who will complete the story.
Karna is an orphan who refuses money and charity for himself, never calls anyone mother, and forgives everyone. Chitra is a lawyer who spent years hiding herself after a painful childhood. He gives her a new name, Chitrangada, after the warrior princess of the Mahabharata who stopped hiding who she was.
Why Readers Are Talking About It
The book’s style is a large part of its appeal. The story moves mostly through conversation, and the feelings live in what people say and in what they leave unsaid. Its themes are close to home for Indian readers: love and marriage, adoption, friendship that becomes family, and forgiveness. That range is why it has topped three very different categories at once.
What has surprised the author most are the messages readers have been sending him. Some write that the characters have started appearing in their dreams. Others say that while reading, they no longer felt like readers at all. They felt they were sitting in that room with the family, listening to every version of the story.
“This book did not begin as a thought. It began as a feeling,” says Tejash Shah. “There were days I cried while writing it. I never planned these characters; I felt them first, and then I wrote them down. So when readers tell me they dream about Karna and Chitra, or that they felt they were in the room, it means the feeling reached them exactly as it reached me. That matters more to me than any ranking.”
A Website Built Around the Novel
Readers can explore the world of the book on its official website, lovestory.tejash.me, which features the characters, hidden details from the story, and three free love quizzes inspired by the novel: The Love Meter, Whose Love Story Are You, and The Love Audit.
About the Author: Tejash Shah
Tejash Shah is an Amazon bestselling author and technology entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CTO of Binary Web Solutions, a digital commerce company. He is also a long-time Vipassana meditator and a certified practitioner of astrology, numerology and Vastu Shastra.
He has published ten books, including Why Meditate, Destiny vs Freewill, Karmajyotir, OMMNIVERSE, WhatsApp Wisdom and his first novel, Revenge, Sex, and Karma, along with Gujarati editions of three titles. Whose Love Story is his second novel and, in his words, the most personal thing he has written.
Learn more about the author at tejash.me.
Where to Buy
Whose Love Story: Chitra, Karna, or Both is available now as a Kindle eBook on Amazon worldwide. The paperback edition is coming soon.
Buy on Amazon (Kindle): https://link.amazon/B0ajg0dfk
Official book website: https://lovestory.tejash.me/
About the author: https://tejash.me/books-by-tejash-shah-1-amazon-bestselling-author/
Book Details
Book: Whose Love Story: Chitra, Karna, or Both
Author: Tejash Shah
Genre: Contemporary Indian Fiction, Love Story, Family Drama
Bestseller ranks: #1 in Parenting & Relationships, #1 in Indian Writing, #1 in Religious & Inspirational Fiction (Amazon Kindle India)
Paperback ISBN: 9798174196841
Hardcover ISBN: 9798174197510
