A heart-warming tale of human relationships

 The Guest of Honour was the noted theatre actor and director, Aamir Raza Husain. Elias Kazmi, director of Productions India, Turner International also graced the event with his presence.

The book is a literary fiction novel; a story of relationships which have become complicated beyond recourse and yet somehow manage to find their redemption. The story talks about how, often unintentionally, one’s life takes a tangent which is impossible to turn around from, despite the best of efforts. Yet, when one’s remorse and atonement is genuine,  salvation can be found closer than one would imagine.

The plot revolves around Susan Pereira, who twenty years back, had to send her only child Matthew, to a boarding school far away. That one decision brought their relationship to a cul -de -sac, which she still hasn’t been able to break out of. Matthew is too distant and too angry to relent. 

Another recurring character in the story, Meera Vashisht is a woman whose misguided love has left her bruised, shattered, and abandoned, only to be found and healed by Susan. Set on a fictional Indian island paradise called Bydore, In The Light Of Darkness is a journey of broken souls looking for closures and new beginnings.  

Radhika Maira Tabrez spoke about her motivation to write, “I feel we all write stories as means of searching for the answers we can’t find elsewhere, script the heroes we need but don’t have, create a world that would like to inhabit instead of the one we do.”

Aamir Raza Husain called it ‘a heartwarming tale of human relationships’. He went on to call Tabrez’s style ‘fresh, unique and endearing’. Tabrez, the writer, is an M.B.A. and a Learning  & Development professional with over twelve years of experience. She has earlier been published in many anthologies like Sankaarak – A literary fusion, Defiant Dreams and When They Spoke; and has also won a number of national writing contests.

Speaking about her motivation to write, Radhika Maira Tabrez said, “I feel we all write stories as a means to search for the answers we can’t find elsewhere; script the heroes that we need but don’t have, create a world that would like to inhabit instead of the one we do.”