In The Sunday Guardian yesterday

In The Sunday Guardian yesterday, thanks Latha Srinivasan for this lovely interview. And what a coincidence it comes out a day after I spoke about the myth of the Happily ever after, versus the reality of the Happily Right Now which we should be grabbing.

“I’ve always wondered why we tend to stop at the “happily ever after” in romance novels. The point at which one ends a story is always the point at which one has a romance or a tragedy in one’s hands. Romance and love are part and parcel of the entire package that includes heartbreak, disillusionment, infidelity and divorce that is a real issue that we see all around us. What most romances tend to do is to promote the concept that the one “big” love story in one’s life is perhaps the only love story worth talking about. But love happens over and over again, we humans by nature are not monogamous. There is heartbreak, divorce, and then perhaps love again. I felt that we need to read stories where they say, its okay, heartbreak and divorce are devastating but there is always the glimmer of the possibility of love again on the horizon.”

Read the interview here: