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The Death of a Gentleman by Riva Razdan

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Yuvraaj, Saarika, Sanjanaa... I am not very sure if the author was quite inspired by Indian K-dramas or a certain KJo for her to have specifically added an extra 'a' to all the character names in the book or maybe she was told by an numerologist to do the needful for a good measure of luck and readership. However, that should not have been the first thing to notice while reading. I am not overly critical by nature and do like to give due credit to authors who put in so much of work. I am after all a diligent reviewer and editor - bound to my job to see the slightest deviation to normal usage of the English alphabets. Apart from this small observation, comes the story of Mumbai elites and their lives. Yuvraaj Khanna is going to become a millionaire. Soon. His grocery delivery app, launched in the dire times of Covid has done stupendously and now he is waiting to expand his operations. But, life was not kind to him and his mother. His father, a hotelier by profession chose to aba...