Book Excerpt | When nostalgia overtakes love and rebellion gives way to doubt
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Book Excerpt | When nostalgia overtakes love and rebellion gives way to doubt

Deccan Chronicle  

For most of my mother’s life, she has lived in the house she was born in. Finally, when I met Reshma and Preethi, a lesbian couple struggling to start their lives together in a town where they knew no one, I came to realise that the pursuit of love and its aftermath was ultimately a kind of displacement. Recently, such a survey was conducted, and it revealed that half our young people consider caste and religion to be the defi ning aspects of our identity. There is an expectation in Indian society that even if married life turns out to be hell, women will stay in the marriage and pray for the same partner for the next seven lifetimes. While reporting on the lives of these three couples, I often thought about why Indian society does not implode from the pressures of so many young people — especially young women — pushing against what we want and what we are expected to want.

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