Contagious Love: Love Knows No Distancing

What if the army was posted outside our houses during the lockdown? The pandemic has hit and lockdown has been imposed. Twenty-three-year-old Delhi boy, Lieutenant Abhimanyu Singh, along with his army cronies, is posted in Chennai to impose the lockdown, far away from his dreams of an action-packed border posting. And when he meets 20-year-old Samyuktha Kumar as he stands guard outside her apartment, he’ s drawn magnetically towards her. But suddenly, the members of the apartment building she lives in start getting infected and nobody knows where it came from. Set in an apartment complex, the story follows the two characters as they navigate anxiety-ridden neighbours, the new normal that the pandemic has brought about. The apartment building is its own world, its own microcosm, where fates are decided, love is built and destroyed. Full of twists and turns, Contagious Love is a love story that is entertaining, real but also fantastical and that will keep readers hooked till the climax— an ending that no one could have predicted.

Aishvarya Murali runs The Unbottle Co., India’ s first 100 per cent recycled plastic-packaged beauty brand. For the last 16 years, she has helped connect India’ s top brands with consumers through storytelling and marketing at Ola and Unilever. Awarded the ‘ Most Influential Marketer of the Year’ by the World Marketing Congress, she helps start-ups launch their marketing journeys. Aishvarya loves singing, playing the guitar and running, but all that comes second to important silliness with her kids, Vedant and Antara. Sriram Emani is an IITian who pursued his MBA from MIT. He is now an actor-storyteller based in Boston, USA. Sriram founded and runs Indian Raga, the world’ s largest platform for Indian performing arts. As an actor, he has played principal roles in award-winning indie films and featured in commercials with leading brands in the United States. Most recently, as the first South Asian to play Bob Cratchit in a live production of A Christmas Carol at the Hanover Theatre, he is helping reimagine the classic story in a more inclusive way. In his spare time, Sriram loves treating his friends to elabo