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Love in the 21st century
The Morning Standard
|July 02, 2025
Stuti Changle's book, Stars Will Guide You Home, deals with three characters where a dating application called AILENA plays a significant part in the story of their reconciliation. A conversation with the author.
What happens when two ex-lovers, who once had a breakup because of their assumed incompatibility, meet each other through an AI-generated dating application called AILENA? Love has indeed found a new dimension in 21st-century India.
Delhi author Stuti Changle's new book, Stars Will Guide You Home (HarperCollins), explores this phenomenon.
In her words, "I have spoken to friends, readers, and colleagues, and they narrated their experiences on multiple dating applications in their quest to find relationships. Hence, I thought of writing a novel where the protagonists would rely on an app to meet each other," she says.
This story is from the July 02, 2025 edition of The Morning Standard.
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