Born in 1967, Tulsi Badrinath lives in Chennai, India. She is a dancer and a writer. Tulsi was on the longlist of the first Man Asian Literary Prize for her novel The Living God. Melting Love is her second novel. Melting Love tells the story of an honest curator Harihar Arora at the Madras Museum who pawns an extremely rare gold coin in his custody to meet his daughter's wedding expenses. However the Finance Company in which he has invested his money collapses, and when he hurries to the pawnbroker to plead for the return of the gold coin, only to hear that the pawnbroker has melted the coin for the value of its gold. tulsibadrinath@hotmail.com