Coupe De Foudre: Romantic Suspense Novel

By Muthukrishnan

Every human being, in one way or another, is unique and everyone’s personality is determined by a combination of genetic and environmental factors. The heroine of this novel, Jayasri is a mascot to our hero, Kesavan who entranced her heart by the magic wand of Cupid and he got benefitted by her. Lalitha, a physically handicapped lady, is a chum of Jayasri an upfront lady, showed her gratitude by illuminating her life by marriage with her old lover. The events portrayed seem to be realistic and suspense. The events took place in south India The relationship between Jayasri and Lalitha is an example to the "world of Friendship".

• Language: English
• Publisher: Pencil
• Release date: Jul 8, 2021
• ISBN: 9789354582868

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COUPE DE FOUDRE (LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT)

ROMANTIC SUSPENSE NOVEL

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MUTHUKRISHNAN

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Author biography

ABOUT AUTHOR

R. Muthukrishnan, a Bardolator, is a retired Professor whose native place is Tiruchirappalli and started this professional career as a writer ever since his adulthood and has furthered his knowledge by writing plays in the college celebrations and then after his retirement from the service, delved into a full-time writer of novels, especially romantic novels, based on human psychology and Shakespearean plays and sonnets. In all his novels, Shakespearean quotations are in spate, significantly. His portrayal of characters are realistic  and some real events are spun into a fixed form from his pragmatic life  by which one can realize the reality of the situation in which the characters  of the novel play their role

Contents

BILLET DOUX

BILLET DOUX

PREFACE

Joy and woe are woven fine,

A clothing for the soul divine;

Under every grief and pine

Runs a joy with silken twine.

It is right it should be so;

Man was made for joy and woe;

And when this we rightly know,

Thro’ the world we safely go.

Who or what causes for joy and woe? Are we, or our circumstances, or both? It’s easy for the philosophers to write or assert that one should be neutral to joy and woe.  By dint of their megillah, one should be matured enough to apprehend the values of the aphorisms that have either been sermonised or read or outcome of their wisdom that have the power to realize the depth of these philosophies provided that he or she must be blessed by the Invisible. As the eminent William Shakespeare says that The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and evil together our life on this earth is the best experience earned to make philosophy but very few act according to the philosophy.

"Look at the yonder field!

The farmer has tilled it and sown the seeds and watered it well. But this is not enough; He must fence it, lest the crop be destroyed by animals.

In the field of life, you sow the seed of ‘karma’, you water it with aspiration. But this is not enough, you must fence the field with satsang’ (fellowship with god-men), else would your crop be destroyed by the animals of passion.

Well, can our passion be controlled by all by our reasoning power? There’s always a qualm between passion and conscience but finally passion wins over the conscience.

Swami Vivekananda says in his discourse that "Money does not pay, nor name; fame does not pay nor bearing it. It’s love that pays; it is character that cleats its ways through adamantine walls difficulties; the power of love is infinitely greater than the power of hated.

Love at first sight’ (coupe de foudre) is always a matter of fascination which is usually the flaring up of infantile feeling-attitudes, the satisfaction of some infantile wish and the fascinated person falls suddenly in love with the fascinating objective, because the latter corresponds to the ideal. The flaring up of such a love with its enormous affect, at once conceals all critical faculties.

Man is a compound of manifold feelings that transform him in a particular manner in a given circumstance. Love, one of the manifold feelings is a strong feeling of caring about somebody and being sexually attracted to them. It's a very general word and can be used in any context. It can sometimes refer to sex such as physical love or a sexual love but it is more often to do with feelings and the way these make one behave. Desire and Passion are stronger words and are much more to do with physical love and sex. Both desire and Passion can mean the feeling of wanting to have sex but only passion can refer to the act of having sex. But Lust is a very strong sexual desire, especially when Love is not involved. It's also related to attraction, a feeling of liking somebody especially in a sexual way so as to mean that sexual attraction is a large part of falling in love.

Kesavan, the protagonist of this novel, a romantic suspense novel, and his fellar, Jayasri, heroine, are not infatuated but attracted with each other in the beginning but Jayasri is found affected by Passion and Desire during tryst. After marriage, they are devoted to each other.

Lalitha is another character, clung to" Platonic Love, a supremely affectionate relationship between human beings,; here her relationship with her classmate, Jagan Moghan Reddy, in which coition is neither desired nor practised, a sheer homosexual relationship.

Another character is created as an example of carnal Desire in the name of Srinivasan, a widower but a perfect man without any bad habit but wants to use Lalitha as a caretaker of his lovely daughter.

I owe the debt of gratitude to the publisher of this Romantic suspense novel and submit this to my readers as a Golden Necklace, studded with the Kohinoor Diamond of Kesavan and JAYASRI, carbuncle of Lalitha, Coral of Jagan Moghan Reddy, Emerald of Padmanaban, Lapis lazuli of Neelavathy, Pearl of Suganthi, Sapphire of Clairvoyant, Sardonyx of house owner and Topaz of his wife, to adorn the readers.

This novel is based on ‘Human Psychology’ and for the difficult terms, meaning is given within brackets for the sake of readers.

I AM INDEBTED TO ‘PENCIL PUBLICATION’ AND THE EDITOR COMMITTEE FOR PUBLISHING THIS NOVEL .

MUTHUKRISHNAN.

Author

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ABOUT AUTHOR

R. Muthukrishnan, a Bardolator, is a retired Professor whose native place is Tiruchirappalli and started this professional career as a writer ever since his adulthood and has furthered his knowledge by writing plays in the college celebrations and then after his retirement from the service, delved into a full-time writer of novels, especially romantic novels, based on human psychology and Shakespearean plays and sonnets. In all his novels, Shakespearean quotations are in spate, significantly. His portrayal of characters are realistic  and some real events are spun into a fixed form from his pragmatic life  by which one can realize the reality of the situation in which the characters  of the novel play their role 

SYNOPSIS

Every human being, in one way or another, is unique and everyone’s personality is determined by a combination of genetic and environmental factors. The heroine of this novel, Jayasri is a mascot to our hero, Kesavan who entranced her heart and got benefitted by her. Lalitha, a physically handicapped lady, is a chum of Jayasri an upfront lady, showed her gratitude by illuminating her life by marriage with her old lover. The events portrayed seem to be realistic and suspense.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER No: ONE: LOVE LETTER (billet-doux)

CHAPTER No: TWO    : UNEMPLOYMENT PROBLEM SOLVED

CHAPTER No: THREE (KESAVAN’S ROMANCE

CHAPTER No: FOUR: BATHING SPORT

CHAPTER No: FIVE: ENTRY OF NEW RELATIONSHIP

CHAPTER No: SIX: PROSOPOGRAPHY AND ALEMBIC OF LALITHA

CHAPTER No: SEVEN: A NEW LEASE OF LIFE

CHAPTWR No: EIGHT: VELLORE CITY

CHAPTWR No: NINE: PLEASANT LIFE

CHAPTWR No: TEN "CLAIRVOYANT

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CHAPTER No: ONE:

LOVE LETTER (billet-doux)

It’s Hemantha Rudhu. (Winter season)

THE hibernal breeze was levitating through the big town, Thirur, where the people were at the lap of Morpheus and the sun was hiding behind the horizon waiting for the dawn but was enjoying the pleasantness of the coolness of the hibernal breeze.

Except Agraharam, other areas of the town were immersed in silent atmosphere and the reason behind was the procession of devotees who were doing bajans during that early dawn and the hymns they were singing vocally with the devotional musical instrument namely,’ harmonium’ made the people wake up who were still sleeping and among them was our heroine, Jayasri.

Yes, she’s Jayasri, one of the charming girls, born in a family of toiles by the freakish destiny and her mother, Suganthi like her husband, Sankaraiyer was immersed in somnolence (deep sleep) like Oormila, , wife of Lakshmana who accompanied with his brother, Lord Rama to the forest.(Please note down that OOrmila didn’t go to forest but her husband Lakshmana went to the forest with his elder brother, Rama)

The weather was foggy as it’s on the pre-dawn that rendered the people cosiness to sleep deeply and our heroine, Jayasri was not exceptional to somnolency since she was a bit haggard (fatigue due to overwork) like her mother, Suganthi, a vicenarian as well as a housewife who was used to toil all day to earn a living by supplying idlies, a South Indian steamed cake of rice, usually served with Sāmbhar, spongy idlies crispy dosa, crumpet varieties,  aromatic vadai and opsonium,(

(Cookery) any food used as a relish, such as chutney) freshly prepared coconut chutney and tomato chutney to many houses by which she earned sufficient income to make a living while her father, a middle aged man, was working as an accountant in an oil mill, far away from  their house.

Her anxiety and concern over her daughter’s marriage was growing as her daughter was growing to reach the nubile age. (Sexually mature; old enough for marriage.)

The three souls had been living in that minuscule house(extremely small house) for twenty five years, a rented house with no facilities as the house rent was very low for their sake, Jayasri was working in a tutorial college as a part time tutor, teaching Mathematics to the dunces by which many times she felt it’s better to tend the buffaloes than teaching them the rare art.  With the income she earned, she was studying B.Sc. Maths under Correspondence course. She deposited a part of the amount to the Chit fund company without knowing that it was a fraud and cheating company. After collecting a huge amount the owner of the chit fund company, one day disappeared from the town*(absconded) and emplaned to a foreign country.

The shock she received was so heavy that she could not restore herself to the normal state for a long time. She attributed the incurring the heavy loss of hard earned money to the gods she relied on and inculpated the gods but not her capital foolishness in relying upon the incredulous chit fund company albeit her mother, a hard-headed woman advised her not to deposit the amount to the chit company  but to the post office. 

Nothing could be done against the cheat as the owner of the chit fund company was a political leader and no legal action could be taken against him.  He settled his life with his wife and draughts safely in a foreign country with the money he swindled from the public especially from the poor.

When she heard the bad tidings that the Chit Fund Company absconded with the money, hard earned money of the people, Jayasri was in so despair that she was about to be fainted but what could she do when everything went against her like others?

Having seen her trauma, a tricenarian woman took pity on her and began to comfort her. She introduced herself as ‘Lalitha’ and spoke to her: We’ve forgotten the home truth that ‘Covet all lose all’ and this harrowing incident teaches us a great lesson. I am also a depositor like you.  What’s the use of crying over spilled milk? (To express regret about something that has already happened or cannot be changed). How much amount did you deposit?

Twenty thousand. Her voice trailed away.

"Do you know how much money I lost? One lakh. I also felt a thunder struck my head on hearing this news. But what to do? What’s the use of lamenting for it washed away from our hands? On seeing you, it reminds me of my sister who is also like you. You’re a split image of my sister. Don’t worry. I will try my best to