Or you hope to find something that the author knows, which you can use as tips or help in your meetings. So, when a book about it comes along, you hope to find something you didn’t know. But the point is, with this topic, there is pretty much nothing you haven’t heard before. It is soul crushing for the person playing the game, of course. The kind of bizarre people you meet (or sometimes don’t, when the person doesn’t show up at all) are very entertaining to an onlooker. Each person claims to have a story to beat the others. To a young adult, there is almost nothing in this book you haven’t heard before.Īfter you cross a certain age, you know someone involved in the whole arranged marriage process (or perhaps you are involved in it yourself). Who’d want to read this story? And why? To a teenager, this book makes little sense because they are too far-off from this. Being from advertising, she’d know her TG (target group) well. The trouble with Meeti’s book is it doesn’t make for a good story, let alone a great one. But as it happens a lot of times, the process is quite embarrassing, entertaining, amusing, insulting, bewildering - not necessarily in that order - but it is. As always, at first, like hundreds others, she rejected it. Meeti Shroff, because she couldn’t or didn’t find love in the corridors of college or office or common friend parties or wherever else people find love these days, finally and reluctantly opted for the arranged marriage route.Īs always, her parents suggested it.

In India, marriages can be divided into love and arranged. It is about a girl - in this case, the author - Meeti Shroff - who became Meeti Shroff Shah - and she thought of spinning that transition into a book. There aren’t too many books about the shenanigans of arranged marriages lining up our bookshelves yet. So, simply on premise, the book works: It is a fresh topic. Anyone who has gone through or didn’t manage to get through engineering is writing a book about it. As far as the Indian offerings from this stable go, IIT is one hot topic. We often find ourselves saying 'oh this is such a filmy incident' (most of us want films made of our lives - because people that watch far exceed those that read).ĭo You Know Any Good Boys is one such from the stable of the latter. The trouble with the latter is things happen to all of us. One man’s experience is another man’s novel (think Chetan Bhagat). Things, life, incidents, experiences, happen to you and you write about them. The latter is when it happens outside you. One man’s imagination is another man’s novel (think J.K. You literally come up with it from scratch. The former is when the book happens inside you. Broadly, literature can be divided into fiction and non-fiction.

Chetan bhagat arranged marriage review