Love consumes and corrodes.

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                 How do you punish or reclaim someone in a wronged relationship? 


“A devastated woman’s grief-stricken sigh had the potential to burn down a house.”

                                                                                                   (The Poison of love)


Love the most debated, celebrated notion has incredible power to replenish, destroy an individual's life, irrevocably. The plot concerns the love of Tulsi, an IIT graduate and her love for Madhav a charming guy. Abandoning her prospective career and protective family, she elopes with a guy who cannot confine himself to one woman and thus began her story of desire and vengeance.

            How do you punish a man who has wronged you? The man happens to be your husband and the father of two children. She wonders, “What is this love that a man is supposed to have for a woman?” (The Poison of love) The wrathful passionate love Tulsi has for Madhav is perilous. Maddening wrath and spiteful vengeance propel her in dangerous ways. The way she decides to punish Madhav is spine chilling. I was reminded Kimkiduk’s movie Moebius, where in vengeance the mother chops off her son’s organ to punish the father’s adultery.  

            With intense lines and fast-moving plot, the book keeps you on toes. The metaphors and symbols employed throughout the work were fascinating.

1.     Love being compared to milk, which becomes sour and turns poisonous over time.

2.     Love being compared to serpent, which eats its own tail.

3.     Love being compared to an acid that corrodes its vessel.

4.     Love being compared to a forgotten milk boiled in a vessel that drains and empties out its content with no attention.

5.     The images of monkeys, corpse eating ants are aggressive and violent.


        Definitely not a typical tale of love and betrayal. The book redefines madness by exploring the need of the wronged one to inflict pain and punishment to reclaim the other. When a woman decides not to victimize herself, the narratives change. An engrossing and disturbing read.

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