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Article: 'Arranged marriage doesn't have to be forced'
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- India Abroad
- Article date:
- August 27, 2004
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Pais, Arthur J.
India Abroad
08-27-2004
Like many novelists Kavita Daswani gets writer's block, along with a slight
fear that nobody would want to read her books. Though she already has one
successful book in bookstores and the second one is just getting noticed,
she describes herself as an ever-worrying writer.
"You worry about not having a good idea, or writing something awful, or
having publishers pass it on," she says. "You worry about heartbreaking
reviews, and, even when the book has got good reviews, you worry about poor
sales."
Yet Daswani - whose second novel, The Village Bride Of Beverly Hills, has
just been published by Putnam - forges ahead. For Matrimonial Purposes, her
first novel was ...