There are love stories that we see on-screen and we yearn for happy endings. We hope against hope that they would end up together despite knowing of their tragic endings. Think of stories of star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet or Heer and Ranjha. Literature is replete with such doomed fictional accounts.
Then there are real-life stories of real people. These are stories of ordinary people who are working at ordinary jobs. People who work extra hard to make their everyday a beautiful dream come true. Diana and Raunak are two such people.
36-year-old Raunak first met Diana while studying a travel course at Kuoni Academy in Mumbai. Soon they became friends and one thing would lead to another.
This is rewinding nearly a decade ago when courtship included relatively old school ideas of meeting at cosy cafes, going out with a group of friends for a movie, and on long walks. Basically, it was an era where “watch on party”, “binge” and “swipe” did not dominate the dating lexicon…