The Indo Soul

             

Indirom, has been set up by two women, one from Pakistan and the other from India.

They claim that their stories will :

"provide romance for the south Asian soul".....

Launched to coincide with Valentine's Day is showcasing new romantic fiction from South Asia,

but with the mission of reflecting the modern realities of love in the subcontinent...

'I wish there was a book which had an Indian hero in it, and an Indian heroine,

maybe someone like me.'"

"At some point I got really tired of reading about blond, blue-eyed women

who were being swept off their feet by Italian millionaires,

because I wasn't blond and blue-eyed, and there was no Italian millionaire anywhere close to me.

Naheed Hassan (left) and Shanti Domnic say there is a gap in the market for South Asian romance

                                         

wax poetic.  whats inside your soul cannot be taken away

Indirom's romances see divorcees and widowers :

getting a second chance at love 

can you love more than once?

The Contract is an example of this.

In the story, a divorced school teacher with a young son living in Lahore

marries a widower who is the father of one of her students...; 8)