Episode 8- The Book of Love: Interfaith Relationships Light A Secular Path

Zarina* saw Abhishek* for the first time in the music room of her school in Kanpur. She remembers the exact date in 2012, because it was Teacher’s Day and she was wearing a yellow suit instead of her uniform. He was thin and scrawny, with long hair swept up, and he was holding a guitar. But she wasn’t impressed. “He looked like a flirt,” she says, “the kind of boy who talks to every girl.” Girls weren’t supposed to talk to boys at the co-ed school, and as a new transfer to the 12th standard, Zarina had already missed three months of her board year and had no time for flirting.  When Surajkali met Amin in 2007, it wasn’t love