Every love story is special. Some more so than others because of the sweet unexpectedness with which they come to you. 

As one story did from Ameen Sayani, the living legend of radio broadcasting, the very first time I had the privilege of interviewing him. Endearingly, he said, “There was an interesting prelude to meeting my wife, Rama Mattu. Quite remarkably, MT Vyas, the principal of my New Era School, had told my parents, ‘Your boy will marry a Kashmiri girl.’ Written in gold letters in my heart, that line turned into a beautiful reality when I met Rama, a voice artiste and singer whose uncle headed Hindi music at AIR. Our son Rajil called her a music encyclopedia—to be relied on for information related to any Hindi film song under the sun.” Shakeel Badayuni, one of the lyricists closest to Ameen Saab, along with Sahir Ludhianvi, wrote the sehra verse that was read out when they married.