Goodreads asked Omid Mankoo:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Omid Mankoo I got into writing "Open to Bliss" because I was curious how is it that one minute one is intensely interested in a woman sexually, and the next minute one doe snot care and is without desire and one is totally disinterested in anything sexually related and one gets busy with some other thing in life, be it chess, poetry music, or whatever. It was puzzling to me how this could be possible

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