What better time to leaf through love stories than the monsoon. Take a man, a woman, an edgy locale - sprinkle passion, mystery, a whiff of history - and you are set for some perfect reading in the rains.
Romance is the flavour of the season as new books, fiction as well as non-fiction, reveal.
'All women are in love with the idea of a manly man who has an abiding passion for a woman for a lifetime,' says Toronto-based novelist Sarita Mandanna, whose new novel, 'The Tiger Hills', was released in India last week.
The book, published by Penguin-India, is woven around the ancient Coorgi tradition of tiger hunting and modern sensibilities. It is the story of a triangular love between Devi, a Coorgi girl born, Devanna, a motherless boy, and Machu, a tiger hunter.
Mandanna's inspiration, as she says, 'was the handsome men of Coorg who still hunt'. Coorg and its romantic history recur as the subject of CP Belliappa's new racy non-fiction The Lost Princess, a Rupa & Co publication.
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