Half Salary Love: When love costs more than rent

By GYAN PRAKASH UPADHYAY

Half Salary Love is a heartwarming, witty, and deeply emotional story of modern India - where dreams cost more than paychecks, and love has to survive between rent reminders and chai bills.

Ravi Deshmukh, a struggling software engineer in Bangalore, lives the classic middle-class dream - long hours, short weekends, and a salary that disappears faster than his motivation.
When he meets Ananya Roy, a food delivery girl saving for her MBA, their lives collide over a wrong order and a right conversation.

What starts as friendship grows into something deeper - a love that fights through ambition, ego, and distance.
But when Ananya moves on to chase her dreams and Ravi is left behind to chase his, both must answer life's hardest question:
What's worth more - success or the person who believed in you first?

Poignant, funny, and brutally honest, Half Salary Love captures the struggle, humour, and heart of every Indian youth balancing career, family, and love.
Fans of Chetan Bhagat, Durjoy Datta, and Ravinder Singh will find themselves smiling, crying, and nodding in recognition.

Because sometimes half love, half luck, and half salary - are still enough for a full life.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G6CRYGK5
• ISBN13: 9798278212317
• Release Date: December 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"