The Art of Being Blind is not a self-help manual. It is not a relationship guide with ten steps to a happier love life. It is a deeply personal, emotionally charged meditation on what has gone wrong with the way we love-and what a blind couple at a railway station can teach us about how to love again.
Written as a conversation between a younger self and an older, wiser self, this book traces the journey of a narrator who witnesses sixty seconds of blind love and spends the next year unravelling what those sixty seconds revealed. It is a book about modern relationships-about the way social media has turned intimacy into performance, the way comparison has poisoned contentment, the way we have replaced feeling with seeing and lost something irreplaceable in the exchange.
But it is also, and more importantly, a book about hope. Because the lesson of the blind couple is not that we are broken. It is that the cure is simpler than we think. Close your eyes. Stop comparing. Stop performing. Stop measuring. And feel. Feel the person beside you. Feel the life you already have. Feel the love that has been waiting, patiently, beneath the noise, for you to stop looking and start listening.
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Anup Khandelwal
Anup Khandelwal is a Chartered Accountant and an alumnus of IIT Bombay and Washington University in St. Louis, where he completed his Executive MBA.
With over thirteen years of experience spanning tax strategy, digital transformation, and business leadership - including nearly a decade at Ernst & Young - he has built a career around simplifying complexity and helping organizations grow with clarity and confidence.
Beyond the boardroom, Anup is deeply invested in reimagining education in India. He writes, speaks, and actively advocates for cognitive-based, immersive learning for school children - believing that true education must go beyond textbooks to nurture curiosity, adaptability, and real-world intelligence.
The Art of Being Blind is his debut book - born not from his professional expertise but from a deeply personal moment at a Mumbai railway station that changed how he understood love, connection, and what it means to truly see.
He lives in India and is, by his own admission, still learning the art of being blind.
