After having tried his hand at short story writing in “Stories of Us: The Common Man”, Bobby Sachdeva comes up with a strikingly different, hard-hitting and content with a level of seriousness in his book, "Once There Was Me: The Extraordinary Life of an Unknown Indian", which is rare in today’s literature. While his "Stories of Us" is about the life and happenings of a common man, through "Once There Was Me", he takes up events from history which have impacted not only his life, but the lives of many others.
There's an interesting parallel in the lives of the author and his father where both had to run to save their lives at the same ages but at different places. Books like "Once There Was Me" is a like a representation of the many who have suffered and have been rendered voiceless. At the same time, the author is able to point out the brutality and the jolting impact it can have on the lives of the young and the old.
The reader of today's generation should definitely read this book in order to understand the psychological state and the sufferings people in the past have gone through.
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