Valentine's Day: Mumbaikars on love in a post-pandemic world

Updated On: 14 February, 2022 10:18 AM IST | Mumbai | Tanishka D’Lyma

To celebrate Valentine’s Day, we invited five writers and an artist to share their take on love in a post-pandemic world

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I see love in a post-pandemic world as more enhanced and intensified. I see a world where we love more freely.

Intimacy matters

Without realising it at the time, I think one of the most romantic things I ever told my partner was, “I can’t wait to get used to you.” Being in a live-in relationship and entering the third year of the pandemic that was thoroughly tested during the pandemic when we were cooped up in a room for months. If you can come out of it a non-bitter person, you have succeeded way more than anyone who can make the best cup of Dalgona coffee now. So, for me, love in a post-pandemic world should make you prioritise what you hold dear and make you never want to let go. I hope more have learnt to readily give into intimacy rather than hatred. Importantly, the age-old adage of ‘Love is all you need’, though seemingly foolish, still holds its sway.

Room for Love - During the Pandemic

For my twin sister.
Love is a mirror
She is my mirror.
Not just in the way worldly mirrors work.
No, she shows me who I am,
beyond the filters of the gram
and the expectations of the family
and the ideas of the world.
She makes room for me,
all of me authentically
and let me see all that I can become.
She shows me love with the grace of a friend
And is every bit my better half, until the very end.

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