Book Review: All Our Loves- Journeys with Polyamory in India by Arundhati Ghosh
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Shevlin Sebastian reviews All Our Loves – Journeys with Polyamory in India by Arundhati Ghosh (Aleph Book Company, 2025), observing how it challenges the common misconceptions of polyamory and reveals the complex and often difficult reality of those who practice it.
The first lines in the introduction of Arundhati Ghosh’s book, All Our Loves – Journeys with Polyamory in India begin like this:
‘Unlike Emily Dickinson’s “hope”, love is not “a thing with feathers”. It has fangs and talons. It bites, it stings, it makes you want to end your life. And, it makes your life totally worth living, with all its dangerous, complex, seductive possibilities. In short, love is hard.
‘But love that attempts to cross boundaries is harder. Loving in ways that the world considers wrong could make one liable to suffer mental abuse, bodily harm, and even death. Anyone who has fallen in love with those socially declared as the ‘wrong’ gender, caste, colour, race or religion, knows the price that has to be paid for such transgressions.’
