Paramad by Koushik Sen [Hardcover]

Pritha, a resident of an old-age home, believes in a strange curse. In her family, marriages based on love are said to bring disaster, as it did in her own life. She spends her days looking for a match for Upama. Meanwhile, her beloved granddaughter Upama wants to marry her boyfriend. Upama's father, Bhaskar, believes that it was his mistake that led to Pritha's husband Aditya and elder daughter Shreya's untimely deaths. Pritha's psychiatrist, Asim Babu, fears that facing reality might drive Pritha completely insane. Bhaskar's daughter Upama lost her mother in an accident at a very young age. Upama's aunt, Diya, lives in Boston, and her grandfather's friend, Dheeraj, lives in Mumbai. Upama wants these estranged people to come closer, forgive each other, and find peace during her wedding, so she is not interested in getting married secretly. But what is the event that disrupted so many beautiful lives? Will Pritha ever recover? Will Upama be able to erase the past?