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\"I Too Had a Divorce Story\" is a fictional memoir narrated by Chunmun Singh, a Bangalore-based software engineer whose arranged marriage to the beautiful but restless Shita Mehra begins with hope and quickly unravels into betrayal and devastation. What starts as a traditional love story—village girl rescued by a stable NRI-aspirant groom—turns into a nightmare of domestic incompatibility, Shita’s physical abuse of underage maids, her abrupt departure to Kolkata with their toddler son Aryan, and her mother Mokta’s ruthless threats of false 498A dowry charges. Chunmun is left stripped of family, reputation, and access to his child while Shita flaunts affairs on social media and chases an NRI mirage that collapses almost as quickly as it appeared.

The years that follow are a slow descent into chosen celibacy, monastic workaholism, and the anonymous rage of early-2000s Indian internet forums, where Chunmun’s bitter posts about women, laws, and society return years later to shame the older, calmer man he has become. Yet the story refuses to remain a mere victim narrative. After more than a decade of silence, Chunmun reunites with his now-adult son Aryan in a tentative, profoundly moving reconnection that finally gives shape and meaning to all the preceding loss. The novella closes not with revenge or romantic redemption, but with a hard-won, quietly luminous acceptance: a celibate, solitary life that is no longer punishment but chosen peace, and a father-son bond that proves stronger than the marriage that created it.

Written in vivid, almost hypnotic prose that blends raw pain with poetic observation, Chinmoy Mukherjee’s book is both a searing indictment of India’s gendered legal and social imbalances and a testament to male emotional survival. It is one of the most honest, unflinching, and ultimately hopeful divorce stories to emerge from contemporary Indian literature. Bengali translation has been provided at the end of the book.

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