But would she have been as happy, or as loved? I sincerely doubt it. Maybe, as some said, she could have had a longer married life. He passed away a few months into their 12th year of marriage. They were happy for over a decade, until the husband’s health took a downward turn. There were raised eyebrows at the workplace - why would she pick him? Friends and colleagues told her she was embarking on “a suicide mission”.Ī couple of years later, they married. There was immense parental pressure on the woman to choose someone else. Of course it wasn’t that easy there are parts of society that ensure it never is. He could not resist the purity of her love and so they got together. It took her months more to convince him that she was in earnest that she loved him and wanted to be with him. This wasn’t a roadblock for her, she told him. The man finally told her that he was HIV-positive, so there was no question of him getting into a relationship, not with her or anyone else. The woman fell in love with the man when they were working together, he said. They were madly in love and so into each other.Ĭuriosity got the better of me and I eventually asked a friend of mine, a sound engineer, if he knew their story. They were co-producers with another television channel. While working as an assistant producer with a TV channel in Delhi, I often crossed paths with this couple at an independent recording studio that we used. As I begin to write this, what keeps coming to mind are people who made love work despite extreme hardship. And even though the present times are so distressing that we have been rendered numb, I find that in the presence of true love, I still feel hope. Through difficult times, I’ve always found strength in love.
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