Love in the times of a pandemic. Unusual, unprecedented, unavoidable.
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Love, Marriage, and Other Disasters by Shilpa Suraj
10th to 30th April
She believes in love, family and…squiggles!
Alisha Rana is not your typical single desi girl. For one, she is on the wrong side of 30. For another, she is divorced. And last but definitely not least, she is still, gasp, a virgin!Alisha doesn’t want much. But what she does want is that elusive thing all women search for – A man who gets her…but a man who gets her hot! She calls it “feeling the squiggle.”
Enter Dr. Vivaan Kapoor, cute, hot, squiggle-worthy. The younger brother of her cousin's prospective groom, he’s got the squiggle factor in spades. The only catch? He's never been married and is years younger than Alisha. Basically, completely off-limits.
And then there is Arjun. Widowed, older than her by the right number of years and a genuinely nice guy. He's Vivaan’s cousin and a so-called perfect match for Alisha. The problem is, Alisha’s squiggle-o-meter refuses to budge for him.
What will Alisha choose? A lifetime together with the 'right' man or a chance at happiness with the 'wrong' one?
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Love in the times of a pandemic. Unusual, unprecedented, unavoidable.
She did and they started chatting and it led to several ‘dates.’ These dates involved him in his balcony and her on her terrace, eating their meals at the same time but with buildings between them. A sweet, romantic, ‘socially distanced’ romance. I wonder, though, how these will stand up to the pressure of close quarters.
Perhaps we should ask all the couples who are spending far more time together in small spaces than they expected to. Relationships, on most days, are hard. People are used to spinning through their lives at a speed which would make a hamster on a wheel dizzy.
It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that the time and space that their workday affords them to be someone other than a spouse, a partner, a parent, or even just a functioning, responsible member of the family is considered quite precious.
But that space is at a premium now. There are harder battles to be fought. Harder challenges to be surmounted. Harder choices to be made.
And still, love finds a way. Whether it is from balconies and terraces or video calls and online conferences, or even something as simple as cuddling your fur baby and watching a movie, where there is a will, there is a way.
Romantic love, familial love, canine love, friends and peers love, all forms of it are at the heart of it love. The glue that holds us together. The force that keeps us going. The hope we cling to as we survive. The faces we remember when anxiety digs its claws into our hearts. Love. It may or may not be what makes the world go round but it is what makes us put one foot in front of the other. Every. Single. Day.
About Shilpa Suraj:
Shilpa Suraj wears many hats - corporate drone, homemaker, mother to a fabulous toddler and author.
An avid reader with an overactive imagination, Shilpa has weaved stories in her head since she was a child. Her previous stints at Google, in an ad agency and as an entrepreneur provide colour to her present day stories, both fiction and non-fiction.
Shilpa on the Web:
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