“With so much turmoil in the world right now, it’s important to bring joy to life’s moments. Bold, yet soothing.įashion designer Azeeza Khan, a fan of pigmented colors, insisted that she use cobalt blue in her recently released outdoor furniture line with CB2. When millennial pink dominated in 2016, it was believed to be a response to current events (“a moment of ambivalent girliness,” wrote Véronique Hyland in The Cut) so is the prevalence of cobalt blue, a shade that’s highly saturated yet cool. It’s popping up in the design of Instagram-famous brands like Glossier and Great Jones it’s featured prominently in new lines of cookware, glassware, loungewear and even cookbooks. Your eyes aren’t deceiving you: You are, in fact, seeing cobalt blue everywhere. If (('gtm=off') const isAppRedirect = ('appRedirect') Ĭonst isAndroid = /Android/i.test(erAgent) Ĭonst isIphone = /iPhone|iPad|iPod/i.test(erAgent) Intimate, moving, sensual, and wry in its portrait of young love, Cobalt Blue is a frank and lyrical exploration of gay life in India that recalls the work of Edmund White and Alan Hollinghurst-of people living in emotional isolation, attempting to find long-term intimacy in relationships that until recently were barely conceivable to them. Translated from the Marathi by acclaimed novelist and critic Jerry Pinto, Sachin Kundalkar’s elegantly wrought and exquisitely spare novel explores the disruption of a traditional family by a free-spirited stranger in order to examine a generation in transition. When he runs away with Anuja, he overturns the family’s lives.

He has no family, no friends, no history, and no plans for the future. He seems like the perfect tenant, ready with the rent and happy to listen to their mother’s musings on the imminent collapse of Indian culture. Brother and sister Tanay and Anuja both fall in love with the same man, an artist lodging in their family home in Pune, in western India. Recently adapted into a stunning Netflix film, Cobalt Blue is a tale of rapturous love and fierce heartbreak told with tenderness and unsparing clarity.

Now a film from Netflix India, this memorable novel confronts issues of sexuality in a changing society through a love triangle between a brother, sister, and their family’s lodger

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