It’s strange, isn’t it — how love sneaks up on you in the smallest of moments? A random smile from a stranger, a dog wagging its tail, a message from an old friend. That’s how this book found me too — quietly, unexpectedly, but all at once. Love, Multiplied (111 Times) didn’t shout for attention. It whispered. And somehow, that whisper was louder than all the noise around me.
Curated by Megha Bajaj — an author, TEDx speaker, educator, and someone who seems to have mastered the art of turning ordinary emotions into extraordinary revelations — this anthology is unlike anything I’ve read in recent times. Published by Apricity, a Bookosmia Imprint, it brings together 111 authors from across the world, aged between 9 and 86, each offering their own intimate slice of love. Not the airbrushed kind we see in films, but love as it actually breathes — awkward, imperfect, resilient, and achingly human.
The premise is simple, yet powerful. The book gathers stories that explore love in all its hues — between parent and child, friends, lovers, teachers, pets, and, perhaps most tenderly, with oneself. There’s laughter and heartbreak, beginnings and endings, discovery and rediscovery. Each story stands alone, but together they form a mosaic — a living, breathing portrait of love as a…
