And We Remained  (English, Paperback, Asad Ali Junaid)

This is a story that was meant to be told. Also, the story is not short and had to be narrated in a different way. Here is the story of the lives of five friends who started off as engineering students.

Summary of the Book

And We Remained is a gripping story with a unique narration style. It is a 51,000 word novel, and the story is set in the 1990’s when India was going through major socio-economic changes.The story is about the lives of five engineering students who have been friends for a long time – Sahir, Sandeep, Gopal, Anand and David. It also speaks of the women in their lives, especially Wardha. The story is intertwined and is told by each of the friends from a first person perspective of the given event. The events that had taken place during their college years are a contrast to the lives that each of them live in their later lives. Even after years, they have kept in touch and narrated their experiences in life both in India and abroad through e-mails. This is an amusing story of their individual journeys through college, love, heartbreak, prison, politics, alcohol, strip clubs, US and Europe.

About Asad Ali Junaid

Asad Ali Junaid is a design professional in Bangalore. He works in the area of Human-Machine Interaction. And We Remained was a book that started off with a need for the story to be told, and one which needed to be told differently. He joined the 'Just Write' fiction writing workshop and soon learnt some story telling skills.