Thursday, February 7, 2013

Book Review - Love Will Follow: Why The Indian Marriage Is Burning

Love Will Follow: Why The Indian Marriage Is BurningLove Will Follow: Why The Indian Marriage Is Burning by Shaifali Sandhya
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Is this really a book? Merely binding a few pages with glue and thread and giving it a cardboard cover does not make it so. So is it really a book?
It read more like a final year Psychology report than a work of non-fiction. It does qualify as an account of what plagues the Indian marriage today but fails to rise above being precisely that, an account. It is a structured compilation of interviews, opinions and deductions, with lots of subjects, but no characters.

It is not entirely unfounded to expect works of non-fiction to invest in characters. They too tell stories - albeit real ones. In writing this book from a entirely diagnostic point of view, I think the author has erred in that the book fails to titillate the reader and evokes no empathy from him whatsoever. In trying to become simultaneously a 'book'-book and a psychology text, the author has truly fallen between two chairs.


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