BOOKS: The Many Conditions of Love by Farahad Zama (From Asian Image)

BOOKS: The Many Conditions of Love by Farahad Zama

12:57pm Tuesday 29th December 2009

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Described as the Indian mills and boon, The Many Conditions of Love is touching, amusing, entertaining and insightful, it continues where The Marriage Bureau for Rich People ended.

Mr Ali's marriage bureau for rich people is flourishing. Mr Ali's son, Rehman, is attracted to glamorous journalist Usha but he is Muslim and she is Hindu. What will their respective parents think when they hear about the relationship?

His assistant Aruna has married a rich doctor, but finds herself facing a sister-in-law who finds fault with everything and accuses her of marrying for money which the sister-in-claims Aruna is draining from the family.

Meanwhile a young widowed friend of Mr Ali comes to stay in town. By tradition she should exclude herself from social life, but she's only in her 20s and Mr Ali believes the world is modern enough that she could re-marry Other theme the story deals with is the thorny subject of forced marriages, all issues I’m sure everyone has experienced first hand or through somebody they know.

The characters have to choose between the traditional and modern way of doing things and the story revolves around the difficult journey they face to make these decisions.

The happily ever after types may struggle with the ending but its definitely a cracking read as it wraps up all the colour, drama and emotion of a Bollywood blockbuster in an absorbing 311 pages.

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