Marriage of a Thousand Lies

After reading Marriage of a Thousand Lies, I was more than glad to have had that real life Q&A with Sindu. For one, its a given that this novel is relevant to our world today, because Sindu is a contemporary writer of our time, but also because of the issues it deals with within the story. The LGBTQ community, tradition vs the new age, and the issues of the non binary. It is interesting to know that this story is not a "thinly veiled memoir", but a story opposite of Sindus. I, like the people she talks about in her interview, automatically thought she was writing a story about herself. It is interesting to see that she in fact isn't and is going out of her way to write stories not only directly related to her but also doing the active research to find them.
However in the same manner I was glad to see that lucky did in fact have some aspects of her personality that came from Sindu and that helped develop the character, which in some ways allows us to know and feel lucky as a person and not just a fictional character. 

In terms of the story and the challenges it presents it was for one far more interesting to read about a place I personally know very well and can directly relate to even if I’m not part of the LGBTQ community. 

As usual I am always looking for ways to relate and although I’m just a straight cis girl, I do have many struggled with tradition. It’s easy to think these issues of acceptance and love are more widely accepted in the world I live in, since my immediate context is an art school where people have all sorts of sexual orientations, gender identities, etc. But in the outside world, particularly in my country of origin, such thoughts, along with many other similar concepts are majorly taboo and not accepted. It was interesting to see Lucky’s journey, and to experience the fact that not everything in life is a happy ending, or a perfectly wonderful outcome but rather, that these issues are complex and hard to deal with. 

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