A Shiv Bhowmik Novel

50 Ways the Heart beats

The Kaamdev Challenge

One man. Fifty heartbeats.
One impossible wager.

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Fifty Heartbeats

Fifty stories. Fifty lessons.
One transformative journey.

A Celestial Wager

When love meets logic,
chaos writes the rules.

Romance. Comedy. Chaos.

A lively buffet of heartbreaks,
laughs and life lessons.

A Novel By

Shiv Bhowmik
Engineer. Writer. Dreamer.

The Wager

A divine bet. A messy mission. Fifty heartbeats to fall — or to find.

Kaamdev character illustration

Kaamdev

Creative Director of Chaos

Witty, mischievous, rule-bender. He believes in love, not spreadsheets.

“Love is art. I just paint the possibilities.”
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Indra

CEO of Heaven

Brilliant, strategic, perfectionist. He believes in logic, not a leap of faith.

“Feelings are a glitch. Let’s debug romance.”
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50 Heartbeats

Fifty encounters. Fifty experiments. One evolving heart.

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Eight doors. One evolving heart.

The Journey of Dev

From paper planes to grown-up goodbyes, every chapter changes what Dev believes love is meant to be.

01

The first idea of forever

Childhood

Paper planes, crayon hearts, and promises made before anyone knew promises could break.

“Forever is easiest to believe when you are eight.”

Character Universe

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Dev

The Seeker

A hopeless romantic in a world of structured logic. He is about to learn that love does not follow a syllabus.

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Kaamdev

Creative Director of Chaos

Mischief, magic and mayhem — all in the name of love.

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Indra

CEO of Heaven

Power. Order. Precision. He believes that love can be engineered.

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Ananya

The Long Memory

Dev's pen-fight rival, sharpest mirror, and the one story that refuses to stay in the past.

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Sameer

The Reality Check

Dev's lifelong friend, pub philosopher, and brutally practical relationship consultant.

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Zoya

The Turning Point

A sharp, unforgettable presence in Dev’s life during both his college and corporate years. She first appears like a footnote, then returns like a red mark on a page he thought he had already corrected.

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Riya

The Spelling-Bee Rival

A precise mind, a folded note, and one unforgettable extra letter in “sincere.”

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Aakriti

The Activist

The fiery university voice who pulls Dev into bulldozers, ballads, and bruised skies.

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Meera

The Quiet Pact

A balcony neighbor, shared Parle-G biscuits, and a connection built in comfortable silence.

“Some doors don’t open to new places, but to new versions of you.”
“Love is not a problem to solve, it’s a feeling to survive.”
“Fifty heartbeats later, maybe the real wager is with yourself.”

From the readers

Love Notes & Afterthoughts

Stories leave the page differently for everyone. These are the moments readers carried with them after the final heartbeat.

★★★★★
“Funny, tender, and unexpectedly thoughtful. Dev’s chaos feels deeply human, while the celestial wager keeps every chapter sparkling.”
Early ReaderRomance & mythology fan
★★★★★

“The kind of romantic comedy that makes you laugh first and quietly rethink your own patterns later.”

Beta Reader
★★★★★

“Kaamdev and Indra are delightful, but the emotional growth is what stays with you.”

First-Look Reader
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Inside the book

A Romantic Comedy With A Celestial Deadline.

Mythology meets missed calls, divine strategy meets very human confusion, and fifty encounters slowly turn into one honest question: what if love is less about finding the right person and more about becoming ready?

01

Myth & Mayhem

Kaamdev and Indra turn modern romance into heaven's most chaotic experiment.

02

Heart & Humor

Awkward timing, sharp banter, chai, monsoon rain, and feelings nobody scheduled.

03

Growth & Destiny

Every almost-love leaves Dev with a lesson he will need at the final door.

FormatPaperback LanguageEnglish GenreRomantic Comedy
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About the Author

Author silhouetteShiv Bhowmik

Shiv Bhowmik

By day, Shiv Bhowmik stares at massive data pipelines, desperately searching for logic in numbers. By night, he engineers romantic crises where gods argue, mortals misread signs, and monsoon rain gets suspiciously good dialogue.

He writes across genres, but is most at home in chaotic romantic comedies, where emotion is harder to debug than code.

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The doors are open.

Begin Your Heartbeat Journey.

Open door

The Seeker

Dev

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About the author

Shiv Bhowmik

Shiv Bhowmik is a Hyderabad-based writer and data professional who spends his days searching for patterns in large systems and his nights exploring the gloriously unpredictable logic of the human heart.

50 Ways The Heart Beats: The Kaamdev Challenge blends contemporary romance, Indian mythology, coming-of-age comedy, and emotional second chances. His storytelling is driven by witty dialogue, awkward honesty, monsoon nostalgia, and the belief that love is rarely neat but always worth examining.

When he is not writing or debugging data pipelines, Shiv is usually collecting story ideas, drinking chai, or scrolling through Instagram reels that will definitely not improve productivity.