About the Book
What if every life were a café—where time lingers between sips, and meaning arrives unannounced, like a stranger who sits beside you?
The Café Around the Corner is a collection of intimate first-person stories that transform the ordinary into the profound. Each tale unfolds in or around a café: which is sometimes a tangible place, and at other times a metaphorical space, where love, memory, and reflection intertwine.
With lyrical prose and a philosopher’s tenderness, Mukta invites readers to linger, to listen, to unlearn and rediscover the secret architecture of human connection.
The Café Around the Corner offers warmth, introspection, and a touch of wonder, because life’s richest stories are often served one cup at a time.
Book Highlights
Inspiring Reads
Each story gently inspires readers to pause and reflect on life’s small yet meaningful moments. The book beautifully shows how ordinary experiences can turn into powerful life lessons filled with warmth, hope, and emotional depth.
Engaging Stories
Written in a simple yet captivating style, the stories feel real and relatable—like conversations in a cozy café. Every chapter draws you in with its storytelling, making it hard to stop reading.
Thoughtful Takeaways
Beyond storytelling, the book leaves readers with meaningful insights about love, human connections, and self-discovery. Each story offers something to think about long after you’ve finished reading.
Book Details
Author
Mukta Kamplikar
Language
English
Format
Paperback, eBook
Publisher
Nu Voice Press
Release Date
January 20, 2026
About Author
Mukta Kamplikar
Mukta writes as she lives—vividly, tenderly, and with an unshakable love for the world in all its shades. What began as reflective journaling grew into stories that dissolve boundaries, moving freely between philosophy, self-help, fairytale, and fiction. For her, writing is not an escape but a return, a way to hold the fragments of life, memory, dream, and relationship up to the light, and discover how they reflect new meanings.
Her work draws as much from lived experience as from imagination. Flashes of friendship, love, and longing, the half-remembered shape of a dream, the silence between words, all appear in her stories like constellations, never fixed but always forming new patterns. Reality drifts into dream, and dream seeps back into reality, until they become indistinguishable. Mukta travels for work and for leisure and those experiences enrich her journey.
Joyful by nature, Mukta delights in life’s details: the warmth of shared laughter, the hidden poetry in the everyday, the tender magic of simply being alive. She is a poet, she sings, she is a dabbler in theatre, and she brings these forms together in her work, her albums, and her literature, each one a different doorway into the same house of expression.
At work, Mukta is an entrepreneur. She runs an Organization Development and Leadership consulting firm out of Pune. She holds a PhD in Management, is a Post Doctoral fellow of AMDISA, Commonwealth Secretariat and an alumnus of the Wharton Accelerated development and The Goldman Sachs 10K NSRCEL, IIM Bangalore.
At play, she paints and creates original art-based merchandise, guided by her belief that art must be both functional and accessible. Across all these pursuits, her vision remains perpetual: to make this world a more sensitive, kinder and more aesthetic place, filled with love.
Dr Mukta Kamplikar – Mukta – Liberating Human Potential – www.muktakamplikar.com
Art, Poetry and Merchandise – Mukta – Artful Living – www.muktakamplikar.net/merchandise
Travel blog – Mukta’s wanderlust – https://mukta17.wordpress.com/
What Our Readers
Say
“A heartwarming and beautifully written story that feels like a warm cup of coffee on a rainy day. The characters are relatable, the emotions feel real, and the cozy café setting makes it hard to put the book down. Perfect for anyone who enjoys light, feel-good reads with a touch of depth.”
“A collection of sweet, thought-provoking stories that turn everyday moments into meaningful reflections. Mukta beautifully captures small details we often overlook, bringing them to life through simple yet imaginative storytelling. The stories are short, cozy, and perfect for readers who enjoy reflecting more than just reading.”
A quietly profound and deeply human book that lingers like a slow cup of coffee. In The Café Around the Corner, Mukta transforms the ordinary into something luminous, weaving intimate moments into reflections on memory and the unseen poetry of life. With lyrical restraint and philosophical tenderness, her writing feels both personal and timeless.