Life Beyond Conventions: Journey of a Small Town Girl to a Big City

Life beyond Conventions is the story of Naina who is born and brought up in the small town of Yamuna Nagar. Naina and her brother Priyanshu are acutely conscious of their father’s limited financial means. Naina feels curbed by the various impositions placed on her by her family and the way girls are expected to behave in a small town society. Naina continuously rebels against the restrictions imposed on her especially because she is a girl and is determined to break out of it for a better life. She leaves the precincts of Yamuna Nagar to study further and pursue her dream of becoming a software engineer. She comes to Delhi and is exposed to big city life for the first time. She loves the glitz and the glamour enjoyed by girls of her age in Delhi. She also goes against her family’s wishes of getting her married to Jaison. About The Author:- Dimple Saxena is a software project lead in one of the reputed IT companies in India. She was born in 1982 in the small town of Yamuna Nagar in Haryana. She completed her studies there and moved to Gurgaon after getting a job as a software engineer. She has visited many places in India as well as abroad. Her hobbies are reading, writing, cooking, singing and dancing. She is a great art and nature lover. Contents:- Contents, Introduction 11, Prologue 13, 1. The Past: My Family 15, 2. My Childhood 19, 3. As a Young Girl 43, 4. Chunnu and Nariyal 99, 5. Life in Gurgaon 123, 6. Wedding Bells 177, 7. Back to My Present 181 The Title 'Life Beyond Conventions: Journey of a Small Town Girl to a Big City written/authored/edited by Dimple Saxena', published in the year 2013. The ISBN 9789351280200 is assigned to the Paperback version of this title.