Ananta Press is delighted to congratulate author Mitisha Mukherji on being officially recognised as a Winner of the Ananta Press Sahitya Ratna Award for her fiction book, It’s All About Love: From an Incomplete Wish to a Complete Story.
This recognition celebrates a work that presents love in a refreshing, sensitive, and deeply human way. Rather than limiting love to conventional romance, Mitisha Mukherji explores how love exists in different forms at different stages of life and within different relationships. Her story reminds readers that love is rarely an isolated emotion. It often carries friendship, comfort, care, disappointment, hope, understanding, attachment, and personal growth along with it.
It’s All About Love stands apart because of the simplicity with which these emotions are presented. The book does not depend upon unnecessary dramatic situations or exaggerated conflicts to keep the reader interested. Instead, it finds meaning in natural interactions, emotional closeness, and the quiet comfort shared between people. This subtle approach gives the story an emotional honesty that many readers can connect with.
One of the strongest qualities recognised during the award consideration was the book’s visual style of storytelling. Its chapters are written in a manner that allows scenes to form easily in the reader’s imagination. The experience can feel similar to watching a series of short, meaningful reels or scenes, while still maintaining the intimacy of reading a work of fiction. This quality makes the narrative accessible, engaging, and suitable for contemporary readers who appreciate stories that move naturally without becoming unnecessarily lengthy.
The Ananta Press Sahitya Ratna Award seeks to recognise authors and books that make a meaningful contribution to literature through originality, emotional value, creativity, relevance, and the ability to leave an impression on readers. The selection of It’s All About Love reflects these values.
The award committee found particular merit in the central idea that love changes its expression depending upon the people involved and the stage of life being experienced. The book encourages readers to look beyond familiar definitions of love and recognise it in quieter forms. Sometimes love is found in understanding. Sometimes it exists in someone’s presence, patience, concern, or acceptance. At other times, it is connected with memories, wishes, separation, or the courage to move forward.
This broader interpretation gives the book both literary and emotional value. It allows readers to relate the story to their own relationships and experiences without forcing them toward a single understanding of what love should look like.
Mitisha Mukherji’s storytelling also deserves appreciation for maintaining brevity while preserving emotional depth. Writing a short and engaging story without making its emotions feel incomplete requires careful control over pace and expression. The book attempts to achieve this through scene-like chapters, relatable emotions, and a natural flow rather than excessive explanation.
The title, It’s All About Love: From an Incomplete Wish to a Complete Story, also reflects the emotional movement at the heart of the work. It suggests a journey from something unfinished toward a sense of completion, while allowing love to remain the connecting force throughout that journey.
Through this book, Mitisha Mukherji contributes a contemporary perspective to general fiction. She offers readers a story that is easy to enter but also encourages them to think about relationships, emotions, and the different ways people care for one another.
Ananta Press warmly congratulates Mitisha Mukherji on receiving the Sahitya Ratna Award. May this recognition encourage her to continue creating stories that connect with readers through simplicity, observation, and emotional truth.
We extend our best wishes to Mitisha Mukherji for her future literary journey and proudly recognise her contribution to contemporary fiction through It’s All About Love: From an Incomplete Wish to a Complete Story.
Reviewer Feedback Drafts
Glenville Ashby
It’s All About Love presents a simple but thoughtful understanding of an emotion that has been written about countless times. What interested me most was the author’s decision not to present love only as romance. Mitisha Mukherji allows love to appear through comfort, understanding, attachment, friendship, expectations, and the many small emotions that connect one person with another. The chapters have a visual quality, and several portions can easily form scenes in the reader’s mind. This makes the reading experience quick and engaging without making the story feel unnecessarily dramatic. I also appreciate that the author does not stretch situations merely to create excitement. The strength of the book lies in its natural emotional movement. It speaks about feelings in a manner that ordinary readers can understand and relate to. For me, its literary value comes from this combination of simplicity, emotional awareness, and a contemporary style of storytelling. It is a warm and accessible work of fiction.
Kavya Pandey
While reading It’s All About Love, I particularly appreciated the way Mitisha Mukherji explores different shades of love without trying to define the emotion through only one relationship. The book recognises that our understanding of love changes as we grow and as different people enter our lives. This thought gives the story a wider emotional meaning. The characters appear to connect through ease, familiarity, care, and comfort rather than through exaggerated romantic moments. I found this approach refreshing because it feels closer to how relationships often develop in real life. Another interesting quality is the structure of the chapters. They have a scene-like movement that helps readers visualise what is happening almost immediately. The story remains brief and focused, which makes it suitable for readers who enjoy emotionally meaningful fiction without excessive description. The book leaves the reader thinking about the people who have shaped their own understanding of love. That personal connection is one of its strongest qualities.
Apeksha Gupta
The most appealing aspect of It’s All About Love is its emotional simplicity. Mitisha Mukherji does not attempt to make love appear grand or perfect. Instead, she presents it as something connected with many other emotions and experiences. Love can contain happiness, concern, disappointment, trust, comfort, hope, and even silence. This understanding gives the book a mature emotional foundation. I also liked the author’s decision to keep the story concise. There is no unnecessary drama added simply to increase the length of the narrative. Each chapter contributes to the emotional journey and moves with the quality of a short visual scene. This makes the book easy to imagine and gives it a contemporary reading style. At the same time, the central message remains clear. Love can take many forms, and every relationship may teach us something different about it. The book succeeds because readers can recognise parts of their own emotional experiences within the story, making it relatable as well as meaningful.
Kavita Kaushik
It’s All About Love offers readers an interesting perspective on relationships by moving beyond the usual idea that a story about love must primarily be a romantic story. Mitisha Mukherji looks at love as a feeling that exists together with many other emotions. I found the moments of comfort and emotional understanding especially important because they show how affection can sometimes be expressed without dramatic words or actions. The writing allows such moments to remain simple, which works well with the nature of the story. I also enjoyed the almost cinematic quality of the chapters. Scenes develop clearly in the imagination, and the reader can follow the emotional movement without being slowed down by unnecessary details. This gives the book a modern character while maintaining the emotional purpose of fiction. The author has taken a familiar subject and approached it from a broader and more personal viewpoint. The result is a relatable story that encourages readers to reconsider what love means in different relationships and stages of life.
Neel Preet
It’s All About Love is an engaging example of how a simple idea can become meaningful when explored with emotional sensitivity. Mitisha Mukherji’s central observation is that love does not remain the same throughout a person’s life. Its meaning changes with relationships, circumstances, maturity, memories, and personal experiences. This thought forms a strong foundation for the book. I particularly appreciated that the story does not depend on excessive conflict or dramatic situations. The author trusts smaller emotional moments to communicate the relationships between the characters. This creates a sense of ease and makes many interactions feel natural. The chapters also have a strong visual flow. They can be imagined almost like individual scenes, which gives the narrative freshness and keeps the reading experience smooth. The book’s contribution lies in presenting a familiar emotion through a wider perspective. It encourages the reader to notice love not only in romance but also in understanding, companionship, concern, and emotional presence. This makes the book accessible, thoughtful, and relevant.
Deepak Seth
For me, the strength of It’s All About Love lies in the thought behind its title and its central message. A wish may remain incomplete, a relationship may change, and circumstances may not always follow expectations, yet these experiences can still become part of a complete personal story. Mitisha Mukherji uses love as the thread connecting these different emotional experiences. I appreciate that the author avoids presenting love as a single perfect feeling. The book acknowledges that other emotions naturally exist alongside it, which gives the story a believable emotional quality. Its short, scene-oriented chapters are another positive feature. They create quick visual impressions and help maintain the reader’s attention without depending on exaggerated drama. This style feels particularly relevant for contemporary fiction readers. Although the story is concise, the idea behind it has enough emotional space for readers to reflect upon their own experiences. The book is approachable, sincere, and built around a message that can connect with readers across different age groups and relationships.
