Jayaraj V Thoppil – a Gurugram-based amateur writer has done proud to the city and brought cheers on the faces of many readers with his book ‘One pint of Cheers’.
Currently displayed at the World Book Fair 2019 in New Delhi, the 433-page fiction portrays the terrific realities of life beyond chocolates, girls, cars and butterflies, and the author deliberates over many significant issues such as alcohol abuse, ill effect of urbanization, haphazard development, unending poverty, rising inequality and corruption of emerging modern society.
“One Pint of Cheers is long awaited mesmerizing Journey album of the protagonist, shot across the diversified land of India and through its mystic aura with myriad strokes of colors and dreams. The novel focuses on the aspiration of X ,Y & Z generations and the evolution of a new culture and changing mindset…,” said Jayaraj (50).
Jayaraj is currently working as a Deputy General Manager in India’s topmost automobile company Maruti Suzuki, a subsidiary of Japanese car and motorcycle giant Suzuki Motor Corporation Japan.
His initial strict and well-disciplined grooming under Japanese work culture and long association with sophisticated Quality function of his organization helped him a lot to redefine himself as a good humanitarian and a quality conscious citizen in totality. His unquenched passion towards creative writing and fine art lead him to the literary world as a serious author. He is married Sumini Jayaraj, an entrepreneur in health care.
Jayaraj V Thoppil was born in Desam (Aluva) a beautiful place in Cochin, Kerala, popularly known as God’s own country. After schooling and college education he had shifted his base to Gurugram, the Millennium city of Haryana, state of investor’s paradise, India.
His debut work Alcohol was published by Frog books in 2012. The latest edition of this contemporary fiction, One pint of Cheers is published by Notion press, currently available in Amazon and other online stores. One Pint of Cheers is one of the major attractions in the ongoing World Book Fair ‘ 2019, New Delhi.
The author wanted to pen down something that would help create awareness on how addiction to alcohol and drugs is ruining the lives of young adults. His narration highlights how alcohol devastates the life of people in the country in totality, how our youngsters are being destroyed in the grip of alcohol gradually in the process of pursuing a dream.
About the book:
The storyline of the book revolves around its protagonist Kevin and how he cautious every parent of this country to have a secret radar on movements of their children to provide them time to time precautions in order to protect them from falling into dangerous dark spots of the modern living. Leaving behind his hometown Devasam, an economically downtrodden place, he settles in Orugav for a decent job and quality life. During his twenty years of service, he witnesses a massive transformation of Orugav village into Oregaon city. However, Devasam still does not bear any sign of development as the responsible authorities or government functionaries never took any concrete initiative. The main source of revenue for the people of Devasam continued to be the selling of alcohol, which was largely consumed by the citizens. Kevin’s only hope, his youngest brother Aldrin, becomes prey of alcohol and destroys his entire life, career and peace of a graceful home. Kevin too loses out on pursuing his dreams in the process of trying to save Aldrin from this gutter. His helping attitude makes him bankrupt and melancholic eventually. He struggles and sweat out to make up his day. Its’ a reflection of a typical life pattern of an aspiring new gen bachelor in Indian context and how he look at the whole system of our pathetic and funny governing system of the country from a different dimension. There is a better way for doing things, Protagonist ridicules on his every close observation he makes out from the routine life cycle.
Kevin realizes the situation is more or less common at both Devasam and Oregaon. The administrations of both cities are not much keen about this menace. Here, as a responsible citizen, Kevin tries to open the eyes of the public and the authorities with his own life experiences and a few other contemporary incidents. He ridicules our feudal and diplomatic administration, which has become a tightly-wound chain on public freedom, collective thought process and sustainable growth.
Speaking about the same, the author said, “Substance use disorder, including opioid dependency and addiction, is one of the gravest public health threats facing India; yet the government and other providers like healthcare institutions and physicians lack deep knowledge and training to confidently know the root cause of the problem that will help get them treated. There should awareness and our purpose together should be to find, promote and enact the necessary solutions to address India’s deadly addiction crisis of new gen. Probably the wisdom you make out from the kind of pain undergoes by the protagonist , stand as the best deaddiction drug available in the current market.”
The book is out and currently available on Notion Press bookstore, Amazon, Flipkart and other e-commerce sites.
The author can be reached at jayaraj.v.thoppil@gmail.com and +91 9811372912
