Pollard Memorial Library (Lowell)

The heart is a shifting sea, love and marriage in Mumbai, Elizabeth Flock

eng

Includes bibliographical references

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non fiction

The heart is a shifting sea

bibliography

1020790764

Elizabeth Flock

love and marriage in Mumbai

While ethnicity, class, and religion are influencing India's development, so too are pop culture and technology-- an uneasy fusion whose impact is most evident in the institution of marriage. Flock introduces three couples whose relationships illuminate these sweeping cultural shifts in dramatic ways. Though these middle-class couples are at different stages in their lives and come from diverse religious backgrounds, their stories build on one another to present a layered, nuanced, and fascinating mosaic of the universal challenges, possibilities, and promise of matrimony in its present state

Prologue: Mumbai, 2014 -- Devotion: Maya and Veer, 1999 to 2009 -- Produce a child, and God smiles: Shahzad and Sabeena, 1983 to 1998 -- A suitable match: Ashok and Parvati, 2009 to 2013 -- Illusions: Maya and Veer, 2010 to 2014 -- Fire in the heart: Shahzad and Sabeena, 1999 to 2013 -- Skywatching: Ashok and Parvati, 2013 to 2014 -- In time: Maya and Veer, 2014 to 2015 -- Moving house: Shahzad and Sabeena, 2014 to 2015 -- The family line: Ashok and Parvati, 2014 t 2015 -- Epilogue: Mumbai, 2015