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Vinayak Shankar Mahadevan & Meera J

Voices from Two Worlds. One Story That Resonates Universally.

Together, Vinayak and Meera bring a rare narrative richness to Different Words. Drawing from decades of lived experience across continents, cultures, and careers, the duo crafts a story that is at once intimate and universal.

Vinayak Shankar Mahadevan is a seasoned professional whose sharp observations of immigrant life, aging masculinity, and family dynamics ground the novel in realism. Meera J, a powerful voice for women navigating tradition and independence, brings depth and emotional texture that elevates every page.

Through dual perspectives—male and female, East and West, legal and emotional—they explore the friction between generational expectations and personal desire, between marriage and loneliness, between identity and reinvention.

“We don’t just tell a story—we tell the truth behind the silence.” — Meera & Vinayak

About the Book

Different Words

An Unflinching Portrait of Love, Loss, and Longing in a Cross-Cultural America.

What happens when a 44-year marriage begins to unravel—not with a bang, but with a thousand quiet betrayals?

Set between Beverly Hills and Mumbai, Different Words explores the emotional landscape of Ramesh and Vandana Patel, an Indian-American couple confronting the slow erosion of intimacy, connection, and identity. As secrets surface and the distance between them grows, the novel traverses massage parlors, courtrooms, family dinners, and whispered regrets.

This book doesn’t shy away from difficult truths—sexual frustration in old age, cultural miscommunication, marital denial, and emotional reckoning. Through layered characters and visceral storytelling, Vinayak and Meera dismantle taboos and offer empathy where judgment usually lives.

Bold. Unapologetic. Human. This is storytelling that dares.

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