Quote by Vikram Seth: “What is a suitable boy? One who loves you, or one who merely suits you?”

This question delves into the complex choice between genuine emotional connection and societal expectation in relationships. It challenges the listener to consider whether love or practicality should guide significant life decisions.

Set in post-independence India, A Suitable Boy explores societal pressures of arranged marriages versus individual desire, reflecting the tensions between tradition and modernity in a rapidly changing nation.

Indian novelist and poet, born in Calcutta in 1952 and educated at Oxford and Stanford. His novel A Suitable Boy, published in 1993, is one of the longest novels written in the English language and an intricate portrait of family, love, and India in the years after independence.