A love story by any other name is still a love story, even when one is masquerading as friendship. Don’t believe me? Read Anuvab Pal’s Chaos Theory, and if you come away thinking they didn’t love each other, I promise you can throw the book at me and I won’t duck.
Mukesh and Sunita meet each other in college and they stick together through decades but not in the way you’d imagine. They hover around each other all their lives and mind you, this was an era before the internet, and cellphones became commonplace, when keeping in touch was much harder and people actually wrote letters and made long distance phone calls from PCOs. What bound them together all their lives, through different continents and their respective families? To find out read the book or watch the play. It was originally a play which was later adapted into a novel by Pal himself. I am dying to see the play and hope they revive it so I can see it in this lifetime.
eternal oxymoron 