Contagious Love: Love Knows No Distancing
Sriram Emani, Aishvarya Murali . Rupa Publications India . English
<b>What if the army was posted outside our houses during the lockdown?</b><br><br> The pandemic has hit and lockdown has been imposed. Twenty-three-year-old Delhi boy, Lieutenant Abhimanyu Singh, along with his army cronies, is posted in Chennai to impose the lockdown, far away from his dreams of an action-packed border posting. And when he meets 20-year-old Samyuktha Kumar as he stands guard outside her apartment, he�s drawn magnetically towards her. But suddenly, the members of the apartment building she lives in start getting infected and nobody knows where it came from.<br> Set in an apartment complex, the story follows the two characters as they navigate anxiety-ridden neighbours, the new normal that the pandemic has brought about. The apartment building is its own world, its own microcosm, where fates are decided, love is built and destroyed.<br> Full of twists and turns, <i>Contagious Love</i> is a love story that is entertaining, real but also fantastical and that will keep readers hooked till the climax�an ending that no one could have predicted.
Categories: Fiction
About the Author
<b>Aishvarya Murali</b> runs The Unbottle Co., India�s first 100 per cent recycled plastic-packaged beauty brand. For the last 16 years, she has helped connect India�s top brands with consumers through storytelling and marketing at Ola and Unilever. Awarded the �Most Influential Marketer of the Year� by the World Marketing Congress, she helps start-ups launch their marketing journeys. Aishvarya loves singing, playing the guitar and running, but all that comes second to important silliness with her kids, Vedant and Antara.<br><br> <b>Sriram Emani</b> is an IITian who pursued his MBA from MIT. He is now an actor-storyteller based in Boston, USA. Sriram founded and runs Indian Raga, the world�s largest platform for Indian performing arts. As an actor, he has played principal roles in award-winning indie films and featured in commercials with leading brands in the United States. Most recently, as the first South Asian to play Bob Cratchit in a live production of <i>A Christmas Carol</i> at the Hanover Theatre, he is helping reimagine the classic story in a more inclusive way. In his spare time, Sriram loves treating his friends to elaborate home-cooked Telugu meals over wine and endless banter.
