Ishqiyapa  (English, Paperback, Dubey Pankaj)

Love was not what they were looking for and yet the found it Sweety is an ill-tempered brat who doesn�t know humility. Loud-mouthed daughter of a local MLA, she dreams of becoming a famous pop diva like Britney Spears. Lallan is the 'Ambani in making' of Patna city. He is the son of Sai Nath Jha who runs 'Lallan Motor Driving School'. He wants to start a 'kidnapping Insurance' business.
Their flickering dreams sets off like a flame when they meet! Sweety helps him meet her Father Kaali Pandey who's the in-house expert on kidnapping. And he decides to help her fulfil her passion. Somewhere along the way, the plan does not remain simple and sweet! Set in Patna and Bombay this serpentine comedy of errors is a kitschy romance between two young lovers stuck in the Ishqiyaapa of love and life.

About the Author

Pankaj Dubey was born in Chaibasa, Jharkhand. He travelled to Delhi and to Europe for higher studies. Between living in a dingy flat in Mukherjee Nagar, New Delhi, with four IAS aspirants and becoming the paying guest of a toilet cleaner in Coventry, England, he thinks he has seen it all. Pankaj was awarded the Navodit Lekhak Award by the Hindi Academy (Government of Delhi) for penning down creative ways to waste time during one's college life in the campus in his story called 'Mukhauta'. His humour expedition continued in the Coventry University in West Midlands, England where he did his master's in applied communications.