FlipKart - the Genie

Last Saturday I was approaching the end of the novel Simoquin Prophecies by Samit Basu. As I was fairly enamored and enchanted with the novel, I couldn’t wait to start on with its sequels – The Manticores’s Secret and The Unwaba Revelations. So on Staurday, after attending my gohonzon meeting near my house I went for Swapna book store in Indiranagar only to find that they don’t have the books with them. Broken hearted I placed the order with them and was thinking of what options I have in hand to get the books-
Option 1: Landmark (what if I don’t get the book there? It’s already 3pm!)

Option 2: Crosswrd (bad option…they didn’t even have The Simoquin Prophecies when I had checked earlier, forget about its sequels)

Option 3: The shop from where I had bought The Simoquin Prophecies on March 27, 2011 as a birthday gift to myself (I can’t go there without any friend taking me there…I have forgotten the route…I just remember that it’s somewhere in Kormangala opposite to a Persian restaurant called Sufi….forget about the route, I don’t even remember the name of that shop L….I tried calling two friends who can take me there…one is sleeping and one’s call is getting forwarded to dunno where)

So, finally after 2-3 minutes of mental juggling between three options, I decided to come back home with a heavy heart.

Next day at office as all my friends came to know about my book crisis, one friend suggested that she could place the order in Flipkart on behalf of me and I could get the books delivered to me in two days. As I had no alternative option in hand, I agreed. She placed an order with Flipkart for The Manticores’s Secret and The Unwaba Revelations on Monday at 9pm. Next day at 2pm I get a mail from my office mail room that I have received a courier and to my utter wonder what I see that Flipkart has already delivered my books to my office address! I hardly could believe it and ran towards the mailroom to grab the packet. I knew Flipkart is efficient but this amount of efficiency even I didn’t expect.

All thanks to my friend Chandrima who took the initiative and ordered the books for me. But then what are friends for?

Thanks to all my jumping around with new books in hand that all my friends came one by one to smell the fragrance of new books while passing comments on what kind of books I read, thanks to the tooth-breaking, mind-frisking-but-still-can’t-understand-the-meaning book titles. Now that I am 80% submerged in the pages of The Manticores’s Secret (20% consciousness I have held back to carry on with my office and house hold work), all credit goes to the Genie in my life - Flipkart.