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= Love Trumps All! Book = Love Trumps All! (2017) is the first novel by Indian-American author Sudarshan Mahabal. It explores cross-cultural relationships, making of India-born American high-tech CEOs and return to India themes. Spanning the globe between Silicon Valley, Manhattan, Mumbai, Pune, Khamgaon, Hyderabad and Kathmandu, the novel examines making of young millionaires in Silicon Valley from their humble beginnings in small-town India. It explores eagerness of many Indians living abroad (NRIs) to re-live back in their motherland. It critiques rise of anti-immigration policies in American policies with idealogical differences between lead characters and book that ends on the night of Trump election as the president during 2016 elections.

Plot
Anant, a small-town Hindu boy, leap-frogs aimlessly by following dreams defined by others, to end up as CTO of a high-tech startup in Silicon Valley. His first love, Madhura, a Buddhist, journalist, nationalist, breaks up with him, disgusted with his urge to follow his American capitalistic dream.

In the US, Anant finds new love in Sameera, an Indian Muslim and medical resident, through their shared interest in Urdu poetry and mutual new-found atheist beliefs. Their transformative Americanization, marriage and professional achievements run parallel alongside Anant’s business partner Chris, Christian, Irish American, New Yorker, charismatic high-tech sales leader, and his bubbly Jewish girl-friend Amy, a compassionate pediatrician, best friend and colleague with Sameera.

Their decade long pack-of-four is separated with Anant's decision to relocate to India to support his aging parents and Sameera’s decision to make peace with her father back in India, against whom she has held a long-standing grudge, for remarrying after losing her mother to cancer.

All their lives take dramatic turns as they adjust to the India re-location. Amy succumbs to breast cancer and Sameera makes peace with her father and step-mother. She also persuades Anant that they re-marry each other in a composite Hindu-Muslim wedding ceremony that draws from both traditions.

Chris, grieving single, joins Anant for a pre re-marriage, awakening bike trip across India to Nepal. In a dramatic development, Anant reunites with Madhura during the worst earthquake at the Everest Base Camp; here they witness and experience the best and worst of humanity.

In the aftermath, Chris and Anant begin to live recklessly, their meaningless, aimless rich lives. It takes one night of soul-searching by all four, for them to realize that they are  suffering from post-traumatic depression. This is when Sameera and Madhura set them on a course for social entrepreneurship to serve humanity by leveraging their combined grassroots, high-tech, sales and medical expertise.

Chris falls in love with Madhura as she warms up to the generous and liberal US. Yet unclear about where to live rest of her life, she visits the US during divisive election time on a fiancée visa. Differences brew between ultra liberal Chris and Madhura who now sympathizes and tries to understand conservative voters even after she is verbally abused at the alt-right rally. As conservatives take over the reins of American politics, Chris wants to turn his back on this new America. He is eager to marry her to have the flexibility to live and invest in India. Madhura, however, is now eager to live in the US to learn from the liberal media and cover the impact of recent developments on Indian businesses – of the new American protectionism and the impetus for Americans to be competitive again.