The River Between Us
by Ravin Kumar
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First published: 2025
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The River Between Us is a poetic and heartwarming romantic short story by <a href="https://mr-ravin.github.io" target="_blank">Ravin Kumar</a>, exploring the quiet power of childhood connection, fate, and timeless love. Set across a serene village and a modern cruise ship, the story follows Ravin and Pooja—two soulmates bound by paper boats, a copper ring, and a mysterious letter “R”. As life separates them and time flows on like a river, a quiet reunion unfolds through symbols, silence, and destiny.
This story blends memory, emotion, and subtle symbolism to remind us that true love never forgets—and always finds its way home.
**About the Author:** <a href="https://mr-ravin.github.io" target="_blank">Ravin Kumar</a> (born 21 August 1993) is a curious person blessed with the ability to see life through the perspectives of an artist, engineer, researcher, inventor, economist, poet, mathematician, ethical hacker, game developer, author, and writer. He has authored the books “The Engineer’s Plan” and “Philosophy of the Trident” (along with its Hindi version “त्रिशूल दर्शन”), and runs the YouTube channel “CodeBeings”, dedicated to sharing knowledge related to computer programming.
Some of his contributions include the creation of a computer language; computer ransomware and its antivirus software (an academic project in cybersecurity); the “Adaptive Base Representation Theorem” in computing and mathematics; multiple theorems in geometry and pure mathematics; two research contributions in theoretical economics, including “Addictive Auctions: Using Lucky-Draw and Gambling Addiction to Increase Participation during Auctioning” and “The Economics of Sovereignty: Phased Virtual Currency and Coalition Reserve Entity”; cutting-edge research in artificial intelligence and deep learning, including the “APTx Neuron” and “APTx Activation Function”; a novel algorithm in quantum computing; the “cyclic scheduling algorithm” in operating systems; and “modified counting sort” in algorithms.
He is also a multiple patent holder with inventions spanning artificial intelligence and electronics. He began his career in artificial intelligence and continues to work in the field. Beyond science and technology, he also embraces the arts through painting, poetry in English and Hindi, short stories such as “The River Between Us: Because Even Rivers Choose Love”, and shayari. These experiences have broadened his understanding of the world.
His project of experiencing ten different life paths began in August 2013 and concluded on 31 October 2021. Details of this project can be found at: <a href="https://mr-ravin.github.io" target="_blank">https://mr-ravin.github.io</a>
Available on: 1. <a href="https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=zgZ0EQAAQBAJ" target="_blank">Google Play</a> 2. <a href="https://books.google.co.in/books/about?id=zgZ0EQAAQBAJ" target="_blank">Google Books</a> 3. <a href="https://mr-ravin.github.io/The_River_Between_Us__by_Ravin_Kumar.pdf" target="_blank">Github</a> 4. <a href="https://archive.org/details/the-river-between-us--by-ravin-kumar" target="_blank">Archive.org</a> 5. <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/1009108034/The-River-Between-Us-By-Ravin-Kumar" target="_blank">Scribd</a> 6. <a href="https://leanpub.com/the_river_between_us__by_ravin_kumar" target="_blank">Leanpub</a>
This story blends memory, emotion, and subtle symbolism to remind us that true love never forgets—and always finds its way home.
**About the Author:** <a href="https://mr-ravin.github.io" target="_blank">Ravin Kumar</a> (born 21 August 1993) is a curious person blessed with the ability to see life through the perspectives of an artist, engineer, researcher, inventor, economist, poet, mathematician, ethical hacker, game developer, author, and writer. He has authored the books “The Engineer’s Plan” and “Philosophy of the Trident” (along with its Hindi version “त्रिशूल दर्शन”), and runs the YouTube channel “CodeBeings”, dedicated to sharing knowledge related to computer programming.
Some of his contributions include the creation of a computer language; computer ransomware and its antivirus software (an academic project in cybersecurity); the “Adaptive Base Representation Theorem” in computing and mathematics; multiple theorems in geometry and pure mathematics; two research contributions in theoretical economics, including “Addictive Auctions: Using Lucky-Draw and Gambling Addiction to Increase Participation during Auctioning” and “The Economics of Sovereignty: Phased Virtual Currency and Coalition Reserve Entity”; cutting-edge research in artificial intelligence and deep learning, including the “APTx Neuron” and “APTx Activation Function”; a novel algorithm in quantum computing; the “cyclic scheduling algorithm” in operating systems; and “modified counting sort” in algorithms.
He is also a multiple patent holder with inventions spanning artificial intelligence and electronics. He began his career in artificial intelligence and continues to work in the field. Beyond science and technology, he also embraces the arts through painting, poetry in English and Hindi, short stories such as “The River Between Us: Because Even Rivers Choose Love”, and shayari. These experiences have broadened his understanding of the world.
His project of experiencing ten different life paths began in August 2013 and concluded on 31 October 2021. Details of this project can be found at: <a href="https://mr-ravin.github.io" target="_blank">https://mr-ravin.github.io</a>
Available on: 1. <a href="https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=zgZ0EQAAQBAJ" target="_blank">Google Play</a> 2. <a href="https://books.google.co.in/books/about?id=zgZ0EQAAQBAJ" target="_blank">Google Books</a> 3. <a href="https://mr-ravin.github.io/The_River_Between_Us__by_Ravin_Kumar.pdf" target="_blank">Github</a> 4. <a href="https://archive.org/details/the-river-between-us--by-ravin-kumar" target="_blank">Archive.org</a> 5. <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/1009108034/The-River-Between-Us-By-Ravin-Kumar" target="_blank">Scribd</a> 6. <a href="https://leanpub.com/the_river_between_us__by_ravin_kumar" target="_blank">Leanpub</a>
