Marital Bliss & Other Things

Marital Bliss & other things is a collection of stories exploring marital relationships and something outside marriage also.

‘Diversity matters’explores the marital differences between an NRI Jeet and an Irish girl Emily. As soon as they are about to end the relationship, a trip to India- to attend a wedding in the boy’s family, brings a new perspective into their lives. 

‘Twilight Bonding’is about an old couple Mr. & Mrs. Patel who lived in Gujarat. It was only at the twilight of life, they began to feel the eternal bonding and companionship. Daughter Parul visits them during her collapsing marriage when she learns about her mother’s past life.

In ‘Couple next door’, Priya feels the lack of that little ’something' in her arranged marriage and tries to compare her life with the couple-next-door’s.What in the end will tend her to think about the bliss in her relationship through the eyes of her neighbor?

‘Living Out’is the story of a live-in couple, Paoli and Rishi. It gives a sneak-peak in the lives of two unconventional youngsters and how they seek love, companionship, trust, and bonding in a relationship out of matrimony. 

‘Monsoon of 79’is about what happens when someone experience a connect outside one’s marriage. Amol recalls a brief affair with a married woman Madhu, during his youth What happens when he meets her after 40 years? Did she also remember everything as clearly as Amol?