A Raw Score

a paperback by Shashi Krishna

Story #17 : Deadlock

There is a certain vein of lifestyles that India now contains. A vein that is so typically Bollywood in it's detail. A young couple, married happily with secure jobs, living in an independant apartment somewhere in the suburbs of the bustling city, happy and content with their sporadically brilliant sex life and definitely at peace with themselves. No story about today's India is complete without a look at something this stereotypical. In fact there is a large ratio of the middle class urban crowd, that leads their life in this way. 'Deadlock' is a story that examines the life of Suraj and Renu post marriage. A time that can be so powerful yet so delicate if the right things are not done and the apt words are not said. The death of a relationship - as it seems - is when the communicatin stops. A lesson Suraj and Renu learn the hard way. This story is a look at thousands of such deadlocks that happen each day in the hedonistic lifestyle of urban India.