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Preeti Shenoy's 'Why We Love The Way We Do' is one of her forays into the world of non-fiction / self-help. And she does it justice.
Preeti Shenoy’s ‘Why We Love The Way We Do‘ is one of her forays into the world of non-fiction / self-help. And she does it justice.
Preeti Shenoy is an author, touted as one of the top-selling authors in India currently, who has hitherto engaged readers with her works of fiction.
The book is a collection of articles from Preeti Shenoy’s column Sex and The City written for the popular national daily Financial Chronicles and is divided into 7 sections, which covers every imaginable topic under relationships. From finding the right partner to divorce and after, from falling in love to serving chai and samosas to proposals on bent knees, from dealing with broken hearts to anger management in relationships, from sex in the bedroom to hooking up and dealing with one-night stands, the book covers it all.
As one reads the book, one realization slowly dawns upon the reader. Although the author is a female and as such a lot of the articles can be perceived as written from a woman’s perspective, there is something for every person, male or female in the book. Most of the articles under the sections Finding the One, Getting Hitched and Let’s Talk apply equally to men and women. Men might even find it useful to take a page or two out of the section Between the Sheets.
While Preeti Shenoy does complete justice to the topic she deals with, it takes a while to understand what the topic in question is. At first glance the book seems to be disjointed. I, for one, started reading from the section Let’s Talk, and moved randomly between sections and articles within each section. Then it hit me that that is the uniqueness of the book. One can start reading from anywhere and stop anywhere and still it will make complete sense. Also, at no point does Preeti sound sermonizing, or try to appear as an expert on the subject of love and relationships – a stark difference from other books in the same genre. The book is a random statement of events and facts that the author has encountered or witnessed in her life, and anecdotes from the lives of those around her.
The downside of this is that one is not really tempted to read the complete book. One reads it in bits and pieces, much like one would read a daily column in a newspaper or someone’s personal blog, with the same degree of indifference and interest. There is no take-away to be gained and not much that will stay with you when you put down the book, except a fortification of the knowledge that, irrespective of what their Facebook accounts say, every person deals with the same demons in their personal lives.
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Neena was the sole caregiver of Amma and though one would think that Amma was dependent on her, Neena felt otherwise.
Neena inhaled the aroma that emanated from the pan and took a deep breath. The aroma of cumin interspersed with butter transported her back to the modest kitchen in her native village. She could picture her father standing in the kitchen wearing his white crisp kurta as he made delectable concoctions for his only daughter.
Neena grew up in a home where both her parents worked together in tandem to keep the house up and running. She had a blissful childhood in her modest two-room house. The house was small but every nook and cranny gave her memories of a lifetime. Neena’s young heart imagined that her life would follow the same cheerful course. But how wrong she was!
When she was sixteen, the catastrophic clutches of destiny snatched away her parents. They passed away in a road accident and Neena was devastated. Relatives thronged her now gloomy house and soon it was decided that she should be married off.
Women today don’t want to be in a partnership that complicates their lives further. They need an equal partner with whom they can figure out life as a team, playing by each other’s strengths.
We all are familiar with that one annoying aunty who is more interested in our marital status than in the dessert counter at a wedding. But these aunties have somehow become obsolete now. Now they are replaced by men we have in our lives. Friends, family, and even work colleagues. It’s the men who are worried about why we are not saying yes to one among their clans. What is wrong with us? Aren’t we scared of dying alone? Like them?
A recent interaction with a guy friend of mine turned sour when he lectured me about how I would regret not getting married at the right time. He lectured that every event in our lives needs to be completed within a certain timeframe set by society else we are doomed. I wasn’t angry. I was just disappointed to realize that annoying aunties are rapidly doubling in our society. And they don’t just appear at weddings or family functions anymore. They are everywhere. They are the real pandemic.
Let’s examine this a little closer.
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