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My romance story, “The Unconventional Love Saga – Turns and Twists of Life” is about the timeless love story between two passionate souls from the ‘city of joy.’ it is the first part of the series, ‘Binayak’s Tales’ and is about formative days of the life of the protagonists. it is not a modern-day’s love story, where education, ambition, the right to choose one’s partner, co-education, friendship with the opposite sex, dating, live-in relationship, freedom of, love, and choosing one’s life-mate were the choices for a common man. In my novel, one of the protagonists’ childhoods is spent in the village on the other side of the border and the college days are spent in Calcutta in the early 70s. Those days, “LOVE LAWS”, as the famed Indian Writer, Arundhati Ray says, rule. I have tried to portray the then world that can ignore and forget the depravation of women in various forms but never forgive those who infringe on the “love laws” strictly imposed. Only the authorities, who play “God”, can dictate whom one must choose to love and “how much” to love. Therefore, the wealthy and class-conscious family of Deepa and the relatives turn hostile against the lovers. Ironically the novel depicts a tale of romance set in early 70’s West Bengal. Nevertheless, most of its adults/seniors are yet to understand the growing new generation! So, as the novel progresses, one can feel the antagonism between the values of the newly educated small-town young generation and the old.