Book Review: The Last Bloom

This World is the greatest gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong ~ Swami Vivekananda.

A flower of any arbitrary garden prospers to blossom mesmerizingly  before it reaches it’s tipping  point; likewise every aspiring and ambitious mind likes to flourish with equivalent education and culture facing all the uncertainties of life.

The ‘last bloom’ classifies  the life of a simplistic yet elegant middle-class girl  Priya, who boasts of her dignified primary education which she has experienced since childhood; with  lots of hopes and urge  of unfulfilled  aspirations she joins the prestigious and sagacious Baranpur university. Meanwhile, to  her utter dismay and  disappointment she bewilders  that most of her fellow classmates do not harmonize with  her level of  intellect or diligence. As a grave matter of consequence she encounters  a lot of tedious , capricious challenges from most of her covetous classmates who many a time feels jealous cum insecure  to her level of diligent potency and pragmatic viewpoint .

The story shares an equivocal characteristics of anguish, animosity, benevolence, camaraderie, déjà vu, fraternity, gullibility, ingenuity, lassitude, maneuver, nonchalance, opulence, pomposity, preposterousness, timidity, ubiquitous presence of underlying truth, covetousness, passion and endurance.

A meticulous observance of all the characters engulfing Priya  displays  a subtle  picture  of different personalities whom any self-confident individual adjudges in their day to day life. Let’s have a vivid elaboration of all the characters :

Anwesha:  One who tries to be diplomatic by making both ends meet.

Ranela: flamboyant, babelicious, ambitious, straightforward

Ashi: skeptical, outspoken, a true rebellion

Keya:  amiable, analytical

Sweta: one who get swayed by emotion, pseudo innocent

Swaha: one who gets influenced easily and has no self- control of feelings

Suvo: power savvy , dispute monger, dicey , leader

Gautam, Tarak, Jeet: follower, people whose aspirations gets bifurcated due to altercations,

Kailash: a blind-eye party follower, tries to pay attention by giving involuntary/ abusive  speech

Mrinmoy : One who loves to speak the truth but fears to face the consequence of it

Ratul: flirtatious, witty

Sthanu:  effeminate, spineless

Vivek: ingenious, sarcastic, explorer, one who understands life and  its  underlying pros and cons.

The crux of the story revolves  around  political hara-kiri at college campus creating havoc mayhem to the student’s educational system  . Beautifully escalates how an aspiring  student’s mind gets tear off between participating in  pseudo social service and building one’s own career. People say ‘ Time and Tide waits for no one’, yet we anoint time being the biggest excuse of almost every failure or unfulfilled dream.  Priya, the main character of Last Bloom faces all the bottlenecks of being a apolitical outspoken student amongst the uncanny political atmosphere.

Author Poulomi Sengupta

Here the author has beautifully articulated every notion of a sophomore psychology  with a touch of empathy . This book has got all the ingredients of inspiring and igniting a student’s flexible and fluctuating mind . This is quite often adjudged that a  person  laments of what he /she has missed while thriving for pseudo- political success at the blooming stage of his/her career.

The name ‘Last Bloom’ thus sounds rhythmic with the flow pattern of the story where the flower alike student’s mind gets bloomed with certain insight and intuition while choosing study over pseudo pompous politics.

Smell The Cheese Often So You Know When It Is Getting Old’ ~Dr Spencer Johnson. In the book  ‘The Last Bloom’,  this cheese plausibly  resembles  good education, one’s prominent career and in total one’s ubiquitous presence of  life and energy.  But our own pseudo posthumous glory resists us to accustom to the ever changing – blooming world.

As we all know Charity begins at home~ So this book vindicates a invaluable question ~ Are we hoodwinking our own career and life in the name of pseudo philanthropy? Reading this book  will definitely guide  a curious mind in following the  ethos of success.

Shades of yellow dispersed throughout scarlet petal of the book-cover resembles positivity and knowledge  amongst   gaga cacophony of  college politics which is very common in every college campus.  The IIT alumni author, Poulomi Sengupta, tries to play the role of a flamboyant messiah by representing a perfect portrait of how to concentrate on study without diverging one’s focus, surpassing all the undercurrent uncanny tensions   which one may experience in his/her serendipitous life.

Book Details:-        

Author: Poulomi Sengupta
Publisher: Frog Books Publishing Year: 2016
ISBN-13: 9789352015474 ISBN-10: 9352015479
Cover: Paperback No. Of Pages: 394
MRP: Rs 375 Buy From: Amazon.in

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This World is the greatest gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong ~ Swami Vivekananda. A flower of any arbitrary garden prospers to blossom mesmerizingly  before it reaches it’s tipping  point; likewise every aspiring and ambitious mind likes to flourish with equivalent education and culture facing all the uncertainties of life. The 'last bloom' classifies  the life of a simplistic yet elegant middle-class girl  Priya, who boasts of her dignified primary education which she has experienced since childhood; with  lots of hopes and urge  of unfulfilled  aspirations she joins the prestigious and sagacious Baranpur university. Meanwhile, to  her utter…
A good education - bestows values and morals to motivate one's spirit over the certain/uncertain challenges of life. But to have a holistic development of the entire nation/society, people have to change their dogmatic way of thought/preference/perception. This will take time and effort both. From Narayn Murthi's "A Better India A Better World" to Poulomi Sengupta's "The Last Bloom" - this consistent yet inexhaustible approach is going on to aware the beloved readers that 'change is only constant' and thus a differential change in perception is essential to reach the state of integral development. 

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A good education - bestows values and morals to motivate one's spirit over the certain/uncertain challenges of life. But to have a holistic development of the entire nation/society, people have to change their dogmatic way of thought/preference/perception. This will take time and effort both. From Narayn Murthi's "A Better India A Better World" to Poulomi Sengupta's "The Last Bloom" - this consistent yet inexhaustible approach is going on to aware the beloved readers that 'change is only constant' and thus a differential change in perception is essential to reach the state of integral development. 

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I am Denizen of Dreamland, born and brought up in cosmopolitan South kolkata. Since childhood I do prefer to make certain necessary and unnecessary changes in my day to day life as anything monotonous bores me a lot.my philosophy towards life is "Living it through moments without being too critical and skeptical towards it". I have an analytical and empathetic mind which helps me to understand and retrospect any situation or any individual in an unique way.
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