Book Review - Love is a Verb by Pramod Rajput

 

Love is a Verb encompasses the trials and tribulation of maintaining a relationship after you have enjoyed your honeymoon period. 

🕒This story is set in the 1960s era when being in love was tougher than falling in love.

🕓Manav is your quintessentially disciplined boy who is serious about his career and has his fair share of challenges.

🕝Enter Madhu, who is like a breath of fresh air and brought some colours to the life of Manav.

🥇I commend the author for crafting a realistic image of a relationship which is far from a rosy picture. The author has built a concrete plot justifying his title that Love is indeed a Verb which signifies physical or mental action. Love is more than the butterflies in the stomach or the abstract feeling of attraction.

🥇Any reader would relate to the challenges faced by Manav and Madhu who were navigating through long distance relationship and familial expectations. 

🥇I also liked the subtle cultural background induced by the author in this story which brings alive the traditional essence of Kanpur. I would also like to commend the author for his ability to portray a realistic relationship in terms of Indian traditional context keeping in mind the mental barrier we face for inter-caste marriages and also while indulging in physical intimacy in a relationship. 

👎I wish the author could have shed more light on the characters' experience in the US as that played a pivotal part in the storyline. At times, I felt some parts of the story to be too text-heavy which was slowing the pace.

🌟Overall, a very succinct and engaging plot which can give you a very important perspective of life and human relationships.