Vijay Dalakoti CHITRA DALAKOTI

VAIBHAV ZAVERBHAI SUTARIYA zaverbhai sutariya

It was drizzling outside. I drove the car through the occasional mist, climbing the winding roads up the high ranges. She didn’t say anything. We knew it was our last journey together. The last time I would be taking her to her workplace. I remembered all the moments we had together from the moment I first met her. How happy we both were together! The great Indian wedding cliché just spoiled our relationship. She belonged to a different religion and our parents denied our insatiable love and desire to be together. My rage and grief reflected on the speedometer of the car. “Please, go slow”, she said at last. When I had a sideways glance, I saw her rummaging in her bag. “Can you please pull over?”, she asked. She looked sick. I stopped the car under a Gulmohar tree which stood magnanimously by the road side, shedding flowers all over the place, bathing the ground under it in blood red. I looked at her. “Why did you want me to stop?” She took out a bottle of imported perfume from

Jaspreet Singh Bindu N

First time we saw each other was on New Years eve party in the Himalayas almost 2 years ago. We chilled around fire and spoke till sunrise and then we both drifted off without sharing contact information. Next we met 2 months later in a party in Goa and again ended up chilling together and talking till the Sun appeared across the horizon of Arabian Sea. We travelled for few weeks together sharing alot of special experiences amongst us. After Goa, the plan was to meet in same Himalayan village - Kasol, where we had met on New years and it was same village where i had settled two years ago. Things happened so beautifully that soon we had a house of our own sharing our mountain abode with a shepherd dog for next few months while she would work from home and I would collect wood and other supplies for the day and wait for her to logout. Once she quit her job, we started a new hostel business in same village. It took off very well and its been 15 months that we are successfully running a business in the mountains which brought us together in first place. In the last two years, we together have travelled extensively within and outside our Country and planning to do much much more exciting things in future. Afterall, our story has just started 😊

Abhishek Dicholkar KHUSHBOO ABHISHEK DICHOLKAR

Our is a love marriage. It's said matches are made in heaven, but our was made while traveling. Our love for traveling brought us together. We dated for 15 years, last year we got court married as we wanted to save money and travel the world. Next on our travel list was Vietnam and during that time I came across this contest so what better than winning it and surprising my wife. Hope she has not participated in this too. We are school buddies and after school our long distance relationship started as I went to London for my further studies. Bcoz of love and trust our relationship sustained. Khushboo visited me to London and we traveled the whole UK for a month. After coming bck from London I went to Portugal for my masters. As its an inter caste marriage there was a little problem from her family but at last love won. And we are constantly traveling to some or the other place after marriage.