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There’s no such thing as a ‘perfect marriage’ or a ‘perfect spouse.’ Come on, get real! Marriage is a flawed institution, if you buy into that theory. Nor is it—as diehard romantics would have you think—a sublime, divine and idyllic union, a true meeting of two bodies, minds and souls. Marriage is an idea. A malleable idea. Marriage is what you make of it. Marriage is maddening, as anybody who has experienced it will tell you. There is no formula for a happy marriage. And nobody has all the answers.
I believe the institution of marriage is under threat. Not just in India, but all over the world. ‘Who needs it?’ I’m frequently challenged. It is this question that served as a trigger for this book. Spouse, like marriage itself, travels freely and fearlessly over different terrains, some of them smooth, some not. In Spouse I have examined my own marriage and the marriages of people I have known intimately, and in the process tried to decode the changed rules of today’s wedding vows. Through anecdotes, incidents, and my own as well as others’ thoughts on the subject, I have attempted the impossible—to try to make sense of this crazy institution called marriage. Why we need it, why we hate it, why we love it, and why the world has yet to come up with a better alternative.
Published by Penguin Books India
• Published: 14 February 2005
• Imprint: Penguin
• ISBN: 0143032372
• Edition: Paperback
• Format: A
• Extent: 320pp
• Classification: Non-Fiction
About the author Shobhaa (Rajadhyakasha) Dé was born in Maharashtra in 1948 and was educated in Delhi and Bombay. She graduated from St Xavier’s College, Bombay, with a degree in psychology and began a career in journalism in 1970. Since then she has founded and edited three popular magazines—Stardust, Society and Celebrity—and has also been Consulting Editor to Sunday and Mega City. She is presently a freelance writer and columnist for several newspapers and magazines including the Times of India, the Statesman and the Sunday Observer. Shobhaa Dé is the best-selling author of several books including Socialite Evenings, Sultry Days, Starry Nights, Sisters, Speedpost and Surviving Men. Shobhaa Dé is married, with six children. She lives in Bombay.
There’s no such thing as a ‘perfect marriage’ or a ‘perfect spouse.’ Come on, get real! Marriage is a flawed institution, if you buy into that theory. Nor is it—as diehard romantics would have you think—a sublime, divine and idyllic union, a true meeting of two bodies, minds and souls. Marriage is an idea. A malleable idea. Marriage is what you make of it. Marriage is maddening, as anybody who has experienced it will tell you. There is no formula for a happy marriage. And nobody has all the answers.
I believe the institution of marriage is under threat. Not just in India, but all over the world. ‘Who needs it?’ I’m frequently challenged. It is this question that served as a trigger for this book. Spouse, like marriage itself, travels freely and fearlessly over different terrains, some of them smooth, some not. In Spouse I have examined my own marriage and the marriages of people I have known intimately, and in the process tried to decode the changed rules of today’s wedding vows. Through anecdotes, incidents, and my own as well as others’ thoughts on the subject, I have attempted the impossible—to try to make sense of this crazy institution called marriage. Why we need it, why we hate it, why we love it, and why the world has yet to come up with a better alternative.
Published by Penguin Books India
• Published: 14 February 2005
• Imprint: Penguin
• ISBN: 0143032372
• Edition: Paperback
• Format: A
• Extent: 320pp
• Classification: Non-Fiction
About the author Shobhaa (Rajadhyakasha) Dé was born in Maharashtra in 1948 and was educated in Delhi and Bombay. She graduated from St Xavier’s College, Bombay, with a degree in psychology and began a career in journalism in 1970. Since then she has founded and edited three popular magazines—Stardust, Society and Celebrity—and has also been Consulting Editor to Sunday and Mega City. She is presently a freelance writer and columnist for several newspapers and magazines including the Times of India, the Statesman and the Sunday Observer. Shobhaa Dé is the best-selling author of several books including Socialite Evenings, Sultry Days, Starry Nights, Sisters, Speedpost and Surviving Men. Shobhaa Dé is married, with six children. She lives in Bombay.
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