Author(s): Basil, Priya

October Highlights 2010

Two lives, two loves, two faiths

Lina Mayur has always been the apple of her fatherâs strict Muslim eye. When she meets Anil, a wealthy, refined and highly artistic student of architecture from Kenyaâs Asian community, the intensity of her feelings for someone so opposite takes her by surprise. She is political and he is not; she is of modest background and he is not; she is a Muslim and he is not â¦

While Linaâs parents still dream of a suitable boy for their eldest daughter, Lina engages in an intricate game of deceit to keep hidden her blossoming relationship. When Imam, Linaâs mother, chances upon a suitcase of their romantic letters, a moral chasm as big as the African continent she is determined to save begins to carve open her heart.