India in love: Marriage and Sexuality in the 21st Century by Ira Trivedi

Aleph book company proudly presented the Kolkata launch of “India in Love: Marriage and Sexuality in the 21^st Century” by Ira Trivedi. The theme of the book is a ground-breaking look at the sexual revolution that is sweeping through Urban India. The evening commenced with a reading of poems by young actor Shahana Chatterjee, which mirrored the themes of love, marriage, relationship and separation in Modern Indian Society. The book was released by Nabaneeta DevSen, eminent author followed by an in depth conversation between author Ira Trivedi, Bickram Ghosh, renowned percussionist and trendsetting fashion designer Nil. The session was ably moderated by impresario Oindrilla Dutt.

“India in Love: Marriage and Sexuality in the 21^st Century” explores the sexual proclivities and mating habits of young Indians on college campuses and in offices; examines the changing faces of Indian pornography and prostitution. The author has travelled from Shillong in the northeast to Chennai in the south, Konark in the east of Mumbai in the west, and over a dozen other cities and towns, in order to gain unprecedented insights into how the nation has sex, gets married and falls in (and out of) love in the 21^st Century.

About the Book

 India in love: Marriage and Sexuality in the 21^st Century is a 2104 non-fiction book. The book is about India`s new changes that Indian Society is going through in the 21<sup>st</sup> Century. Trivedi has travelled to over dozen cities and interviewed 500 people including academics, policy makers, law-enforcers and other participants in India`s sexual and marriage revolution. India in Love is her first work of non-fiction, and it is divided into two parts: sexuality, and marriage.

About the author

 Ira Trivedi is an Indian Novelist, yoga teacher, entrepreneur, and speaker. Her published works are What Would You Do To Save the World? (Penguin 2006), The Great Indian Love Story (Penguin 2009) and There is No Love on Wall Street (Penguin 2011), all of which have translated into several regional languages. This book was released at Jaipur Literature Festival by Pulitzer Prize Winner author Jonut Diaz and has been translated to Greek and Spanish. Trivedi is an MBA from Columbia Business School where she won the Feldberg fellowship and a BA in Economics from Wellesley College.