Since ages when this mortal world came to existence, love has been a significant emotion which has spread its charm irrespective of age, gender, class, caste or any financial, political or social strata. No matter whether you reside on a mountain or a barren island, you can’t undermine the importance of love. Love being a powerful emotion has been the reason of a sweet smile on our face and ironically a lot of complex situations arise out of love. And assimilating all those emotions under a single roof the upcoming masterpiece, “Love In Modern Times” by acclaimed storyteller ‘Nitish Raj’ gives you a diverse insight on love in this modern age where romance and love has been taken over by sophistication and modernization.
Love In Modern Times is a short story collection of 20 short stories consisting of the various emotions which we are bound to encounter while being in love. Indeed! Love is a virtue but had there been any mechanism which could measure the intensity of the love, 99% of the relationships would have ceased to exist. Undoubtedly we swear a lot of promises to our partner but the diseased mentality of multiple relationships and ‘Move On’ had let the existing romance die a premature death. Mr. Raj in this upcoming collection has tried to decipher the thought-process of an individual while riding on the ship of romance. Through multiple stories and multiple characters, Mr. Raj has let us take a dip into an ocean of romance where once we are into love, we tend to forget the the associated morality and we find ourselves either in May-December relationships or such relationships which are high on romance but perhaps are devoid of any future. When we tend to talk about the future of a relationship, it also becomes imperative to talk about those aspects which we had ignored either out of our complacency or being wrapped in our own cobwebs of ego and false pretence. Indeed! The mature love which we highly advocate is perhaps based on rationality and it’s an open secret that either a person could be rational or be in love. As Mr. Raj says, “The reason we have found ourselves on the brink of broken relationships has been the stereotyping associated with love which had let ourselves doubt the veracity of love once it seems to cross the barrier of societal norms.”
Mr. Raj is quite assured that Love In Modern Times would be not just an interesting read for the readers but also an eye-opener as they would find themselves immersed into the multiple shades of romance.