{"product_id":"parul-a-love-story-harsha-dehejia","title":"Parul: A Love Story – Harsha Dehejia","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" data-path-to-node=\"7\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eExplore a modern philosophical love story rooted in Indian aesthetics with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-path-to-node=\"7\" data-index-in-node=\"75\"\u003e'Parul: A Love Story'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e by Harsha Dehejia,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e now available at Beetle Bookshop.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" data-path-to-node=\"8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn the night of the full moon,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e beneath the shades of the Parijatak tree,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Parul would meet Prafull once every month.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e The two are mirror opposites.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Prafull is a learned,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e rational philosopher steeped in the cool abstractions of Advaita Vedanta,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e seeking to transcend the world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Parul lives by instinct and feeling—her world revolving around rangolis,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e embroidered old fabrics,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e the birds in her garden,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e art,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and beauty—eager to touch,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e live in,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and celebrate the world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" data-path-to-node=\"9\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTheir courtship unfolds across a single ritual year,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e from Chaitra to Phalgun,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e until one full moon night when Parul leaves.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e What follows turns the novel from love into longing—a pilgrimage taking Parul from a Radha–Krishna temple to a Sufi dargah in Ajmer,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and onward to a Himalayan village where a painter still practises the almost-forgotten art of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-path-to-node=\"9\" data-index-in-node=\"354\"\u003eBarahmasa\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Years later,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Prafull finds her by accident in a museum gallery,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e standing before a stone image of Krishna under another woman’s name.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" data-path-to-node=\"10\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWeaving Sanskrit verse,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Kangra miniatures,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Sufi lore,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and seasonal folk songs,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Harsha Dehejia reimagines one of Indian aesthetics’ oldest arguments—between \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-path-to-node=\"10\" data-index-in-node=\"156\"\u003eshringara\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-path-to-node=\"10\" data-index-in-node=\"170\"\u003ebhakti\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e the classical and the folk,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e presence and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-path-to-node=\"10\" data-index-in-node=\"219\"\u003evira\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BEETLE BOOK SHOP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54609769136411,"sku":null,"price":629.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0686\/2150\/0699\/files\/Parul-Front.jpg?v=1794492576","url":"https:\/\/beetlebookshop.com\/products\/parul-a-love-story-harsha-dehejia","provider":"Beetle Book Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}