THE UNCONVENTIONAL LOVE SAGA : Turns and Twists of Life

<p>My romance story &ldquo;The Unconventional Love Saga &ndash; Turns and Twists of Life&rdquo; is about the timeless love story between two passionate souls from the &lsquo;city of joy.&rsquo; it is the first part of the series &lsquo;Binayak&rsquo;s Tales&rsquo; and is about formative days of the life of the protagonists. it is not a modern-day&rsquo;s love story where education ambition the right to choose one&rsquo;s partner co-education friendship with the opposite sex dating live-in relationship freedom of love and choosing one&rsquo;s life-mate were the choices for a common man.</p><p>In my novel one of the protagonists&rsquo; childhoods is spent in the village on the other side of the border and the college days are spent in Calcutta in the early 70s. Those days &ldquo;LOVE LAWS&rdquo; as the famed Indian Writer Arundhati Ray says rule. I have tried to portray the then world that can ignore and forget the depravation of women in various forms but never forgive those who infringe on the &ldquo;love laws&rdquo; strictly imposed.</p><p>Only the authorities who play &ldquo;God&rdquo; can dictate whom one must choose to love and &ldquo;how much&rdquo; to love. Therefore the wealthy and class-conscious family of Deepa and the relatives turn hostile against the lovers.&nbsp;</p><p>Ironically the novel depicts a tale of romance set in early 70&rsquo;s West Bengal. Nevertheless most of its adults/seniors are yet to understand the growing new generation! So as the novel progresses one can feel the antagonism between the values of the newly educated small-town young generation and the old.</p>