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Even though I am miffed Antara didn’t want to sit with me, she’s forgiven! Love ke liye saala kuch bhi karega 😂. Very very cute Sunday reading this has been. Want more more MOAR OF adventures of Antara and Rizwan!

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I want to sit with you now!!! I miss you in every workshop! Like who else is as warm and goofy and creative as you and who can remind me of the song “love ke liye saala kuch bhi karega” 😍🫶🏼🌻

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It's hard to draw a purple squiggly line between loving Raju's writing and loving it A LOT. I roll from one to the other without knowing how, especially when she writes YA romance 🫶🏼

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Awwww Thank you Swaati… Mujhe romance likhna sikha do ♥️ maza hi aa jaaega jeevan mein

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This story reminded me of the person caught in the first rushes of love I so badly, madly, desperately wanted to be at Antara's age.

Sometimes reading something is as good as living it. This was one of those times.

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Thank you Nishi ♥️ I also didn’t realise it fully until I wrote this in Bavaal. 🌸

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I well remember this prankster and the poet and the tender moments between them!❤️❤️ They are all unforgettable!

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Yay, thank you Alaknanda. So glad we have written so much together ♥️♥️

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So sweet! Made me time travel Class 7C!

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Hey, thank you, Arzoo ♥️ I was hoping for exactly that. Even if I know schools and school experiences can be vastly different. 🌸 Thanks for reading.

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You captured those little details of classroom life so beautifully :D Loving it. That first acknowledgement of one's writing from an authority figure like a teacher (topmost of the totem at that age) is unforgettable, and permanently powerful.

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Gosh this is DELIGHTFUL 🌈

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Thank you Natasha 🌻 It was drafted in our very own Bavaal Writers’ Salon ♥️

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Yes! I remember reading this gulabjamun of a story when it was hot off Raju’s press

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🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼

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Such a cute story!!! Want more of Antara and Rizwan’s anecdotes!

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back to school. All the fights, not letting go of the partner while continuing to fight -- hard relate. Thanks Raju.

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This is lovely!

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RAJU! I hope you can hear me screaming your name! I LOVE this. I don't know why, but I was tearing up! Happy tears. ❤️. And please tell me how to add emojis on Substack. I copied the heart from Alaknanda's comment. Somewhere in this multiverse, Antara and Rizwan are sitting happily reading books and doodling, and not a purple line in sight.

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I want to hear more. :) Being in the same class I know who are you talking about. ;) It gave the happy chills to go back to school and relive the happy moments. :*

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Makes me want to go back to school. Weird, silly, gooey times ❤️

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Me too! I don’t like so many things about schools but I love the gooey times. ☺️

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Gosh! I can completely relate to this one. Me the nerdy, poetic, bespectacled girl made to sit with the class prankster! Only I never found one interested in reading...

Thanks for a trip down memory lane :)

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Yay…Thank you Minaz…♥️ Cheers to the nerdy poetic bespectacled beings we are.. we have a prankster inside us too.. and that one reads.. 🤓💛

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You bet!

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Total jalebi ...this story. Sweetness overload !

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Thank you Ritu 💜🌼 All I want to do in life is make jalebis and samosas with words.. 🤓

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Adorable kiddos!

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Aw… Thank you Dipali ♥️ That’s such a sweet response.

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