Ravinder Singh (born 4 February 1982) is an Indian software engineer and author of nine novels — '' I Too Had a Love Story'', ''Can Love Happen Twice?'', ''Like it happened Yesterday'', ''Love Stories That Touched My Heart'', '' Tell Me A Story'', ''Your Dreams are Mine Now'', ''This Love That Feels Right'', ''Will You Still Love Me?'' and ''The Belated Bachelor Party''. He started his career as an IT professional in

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. His girlfriend died in 2007 before they got formally engaged. He adapted his own story into his first novel '' I Too Had a Love Story'' which was published in 2008. Writing the book helped him cope with the tragedy in his life. This novel was reviewed by

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, Chairman Emeritus of

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, who called it "Simple, honest and touching".

Early life

Singh was born in a

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family in

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and brought up in Burla,

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. He completed his schooling at Guru Nanak Public School,

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. He received a

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in computer science engineering from Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College in Karnataka. Then he moved to

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to work at Infosys Technologies for five years. He did his MBA at

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. He was working as a Sr. Program Manager at Microsoft when he decided to become a full-time author.

Writing career

Singh's debut novel is based on a real-life incident when he met a girl, how his romance flourished and then how it came to an unfortunate end, before he could propose marriage to her. After a six-month search, an editing team sent the manuscript to the publisher ''Srishti'', who published the book. The book was unveiled at a press conference in

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. An audio version of the novel '' I Too Had a Love Story'' was also launched in mid-2011. After the release of his first book in 2008 ravinder singh books list has grown richer and richer. This novel was also published in

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language, entitled ''Nannadu Ondu prema kathe''.

Novels

# '' I Too Had a Love Story'' (2007) # ''Can love happen twice?'' (2011) # ''Love Stories That Touched My Heart'' (2012) # ''Like it Happened Yesterday'' (2013) # ''Your Dreams Are Mine Now'' (2014) # ''Tell me a Story'' (2015) # ''This Love That Feels Right'' (2016) # ''Will You Still Love Me?'' (2018) # ''The Belated Bachelor Party'' (2019) # ''You Are All I Need'' (2020) (Editor) # ''Write Me A Love Story'' (2021)

Entrepreneur

Ravinder Singh ventured into book publishing in the year 2015 with his publication house ''Black Ink''.

Books by ''Black Ink''

# ''A Good Girl'' — By Chandana Roy # ''Making Of Babaji Inc'' — By Shravya Bhinder # ''The Guest'' — By Mitali Meelan # ''Three Marketeers'' — By Ajeet Sharma

References

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