Hemant Behera
Engineer. Writer. Indian novelist
Engineer. Writer. Indian novelist

Hemant Behera is a debut novelist and engineer currently based in the United States, originally from Jogimunda, Balangir (Odisha). You Before Everything is inspired by his own experience navigating the unique pressures and passions of college life in the 2000s. While engineering has been his profession, writing has been his lifelong passion. He spent over ten years writing this novel. Childhood Chandamama stories ignited his love for storytelling and the world of fiction. His passions span cinema, poetry, and novels—particularly the love stories that challenge social conventions and survive Read More...


Achievements

You Before Everything

Books by Hemant Behera

Ayan Sharma and Sara Mishra fall in love in their first semester of engineering college in Bhubaneswar—the kind of love that makes you forget the world exists. Wild, reckless, all-consuming.

But love at nineteen doesn’t come with warnings. A public fight. A suspension from college. Families torn apart by shame. Everything they built… shattered in a single day.

On the banks of the Daya River, they make a promise that sounds like beautiful ma

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You Before Everything

Books by Hemant Behera

Ayan Sharma and Sara Mishra fall in love in their first semester of engineering college in Bhubaneswar—the kind of love that makes you forget the world exists. Wild, reckless, all-consuming.

But love at nineteen doesn’t come with warnings. A public fight. A suspension from college. Families torn apart by shame. Everything they built… shattered in a single day.

On the banks of the Daya River, they make a promise that sounds like beautiful ma

Read More... Buy Now

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