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Impassive love..

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They lay spent after a passionate rendezvous. He got up to leave not before he looked into her eyes and kissed her forehead. She showed no emotion, her eyes impassive.  He left.  Strange it may seem, but it was business as usual for her. Falling in love is a luxury she can't afford in Kamathipura*. Courtesy : Google images, *Kamathipura   is Mumbai 's oldest and Asia's largest red-light district.

True real love...

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He gives his hand for her to hold out of a train slowly picking up pace and she runs at full speed (Completely decked up for her own wedding) and grabs hold of it. The heart soars and curtain falls. You come out of the movie with expectations set "Chopra and Johar" movies high. We have a huge appetite for love stories and happily ever afters. We have been brought on stories of princess who needs to be rescued, an evil stepmother/father/family or animal, dragons that breathe fire and a prince charming who on his white horse slays everyone who comes in his way of getting to his beloved princess. Eventually, every prince and princess walk into the sunset and stay happily ever after. We grow up expecting something similar, if not exactly the same, happening in our very own lives. We grow up expecting perfection, which we find out, exists only in stories and movies. The prince in our life almost never behaves like the hero and prince. He rarely does the right