Love & Loss

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This book is about love. The interpretation of love. It is also about passion. Passion for love. Passion for the existence of that love. ‘The question was not whether it would happen, or not. They had both reached the precipice. The question was who would make the first move, today. A question that each and every part of their bodies was asking. A question whose answer was eagerly awaited. The breeze had turned gentler now, a zeplyr and much like magic. in the creaky old boat they sat in floating over the Ganges, soaking the now dripping night dew it was almost like a dream. Dream caressed with the wafting wind running through them. The cold night was spiking them, in her churidars and in his dhoti, the loincloth.

She stole him from the dreamland, on to the floorboard. Under their weight the old rut creaked, alarming. She took his hand and holding it shivered again. This shiver, however, was more out of outrageous desires drawing_within her, Than because of the cold. His heart was on a tearing rampage, out of control all on its own. She held his hand dragging him along into her arms. He was swarmed in a single wave of desire, the weight of flesh. Her hair had come untied and flapped against him. Somehow the clip holding it there had come undone, or was it her expertise? her hair performed the wildest possible gyrations int the breeze, the zephyr on a cold winter night, a cold now misty night. In her tight embrace, he was held.

It is also about heartbreak, the heartbreak that changes lives. “Then do I accept that our monthlong relationship was but an ephemeral happening? A little bit of that, now vaporized molecule? Was it but a bit of morning cj.ew with no substance in it? A relationship that has all but disappeared without trace. “he argued for his love.

It is about chance. How strong a role chance plays in our lives.

Then there is struggle, a social struggle. Struggle for survival. Honourable survival. Conflict against a stasis, a conflict that changes live. It is about how the political structure operates in this country, it is about how democracy delivers