About the Book: The Newlyweds: Three Couples Who Risked Everything for Love
India is teeming with a young population that was born post-liberalisation,
grew up with the internet, witnessed the advent of smartphones and social media,
and is well-versed in the many dialects of a globalised pop culture. But when it
comes to love and marriage, theyre often disconcertingly expected to adhere to
the orthodoxy of a bygone era. Its this conflict between the parallel paths of
alleged tradition and mutinous modernity that drives journalist Mansi Choksis
The Newlyweds. Through vivid, lyrical prose, Choksi shines a light on three
young couples who buck against patriarchy-approved