The Bride of One-Sided Marriage

“The natural progression of one-sided love is not two-sided love, as universally mistaken. The only natural outcome of a one-sided love, or unrequited love, is a one-sided marriage.” For the shatterer of a million myths, the secret to Kulaya’s turning into an intelligentsia was the kindred emotions sprouting from her tender heart and not the grey matter. Being the solitary dark-skinned member in a fair-skinned family, her journey unfolds from birth to her nineteenth year. Lavanya, a fellow dark-skinned classmate, and Kalpini, her supportive elder sister, aid her at various crossroads in this fragile expedition. The story presents Kulaya with relentless choices: a sympathetic friend and an antagonistic class, her sister’s warmth and her family’s fury, her love for the dramatic arts and the expectations of a software engineering degree, and her lifelong companion versus the prospects of a one-sided marriage.