An Affair To Remember In Pre-Independence India

02/19/2013

An Affair To Remember In Pre-Independence India

It began like a typical Bollywood story. Boy meets girl in pre-independence India. They fall in love. Her family says no way. So one night, she escapes. NPR commentator Sandip Roy recounts how his great-aunt jumped off a moving train for love, and went on to have a happy 60-year-long marriage.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2013/02/14/171701297/an-affair-to-remember-in-pre-independence-india?ft=1&f=1057

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