The Coin by Sandeep Sharma is an interesting and engrossing 160-page
action thriller. The fiction story has 3 key characters and all three
have a strong characterization and a huge impact on each other. In fact,
this is a story of power, money, and politics. It shows how power can
corrupt a mind and malign a character. It also reflects how childhood
bullying and physical assaults create a long-lasting impact on the mind
of the child. During an early age, a child has a higher level of belief
on his close relations and lesser knowledge of differentiating between
right and wrong. An unnatural torture in the name of making a kid
stronger against the world is an absolute misdeed. But then that is what
life is. You find all kind of people around.
Author Sandeep
Sharma has a special art in his writing style that creates enough
curiosity about the characters and the circumstances in which they
evolve. It prompts you to think about it. In fact, you keep intriguing
while reading it and asking yourself - what next?
The story of
The Coin is about a politician who is one of the richest person in the town
and has enough power to manipulate things in his way. He adopts two
boys in their early age but for a wrong purpose and his selfish motives.
He also tries to manipulate them as the different sides of a coin. That
is what the cover of the book says - 'There is no other side of the
coin'.
There are a lot of spelling mistakes in The Coin. Brought
becomes bought on page 13, 29, 88, and 97. Him becomes hin on page 15.
Is becomes if on page 45. Hear becomes head on page 86. Now imagine you
are reading such an interesting story, and you get annoying disruptors
like this so frequently. The good point is that despite such disruptors, the
story compels you to carry on and focus on the sequences to follow.
The
story of The Coin reflects a really sad part of our country. Every
system, policy, rule, and government machinery has a 'screwdriver'. You
only need to identify this screwdriver who knows exactly when and how to
tighten the loose ends. As Babban tries to explain - "He knows everyone
inside out. Regardless of his position in the organization, he can even
bend the top officers according to his will." And, in fact, every such
screwdriver has a fee that we call as a bribe. Another learning is about
the plans we make. It's foolish to plan because if it fails, you have
nothing left other than wait to face the consequences.
And the
third important learning is as Chandan says, "I have seen in this world,
there's no good. Everyone is pretending to be human, but actually,
there's no one. The definition of human is wrong. We are just animals
with a higher intellect. There's no difference between the wilds who are
wandering outside and the one who is wandering inside in all of us."
Overall,
The Coin is an interesting story of Dharmender, Chandan, and Raunak.
Just read and try to match yourself with one of them. Or you also
believe that there's no other side of a coin?
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