Love is a deeply personal experience, but it is also a political one. "When you talk about romantic relationships leading to marriage, identity markers like caste, religion and gender gain prominence; because that is the socio-cultural context we all come from. In India and South Asia, marriages are largely endogamous. They are -arranged- within one-s caste, sub-caste, etc. People of all faiths practice caste here, whether Hindus, Muslims, Christians or Sikhs," explains Jyotsna Siddharth, the founder of Project Anti-Caste, Love 2018 and a Delhi-based actor, activist, writer and project manager at Gender At Work India.

They have been sharing a series of love letters written by inter-caste couples on the project-s Instagram page. "Love letters are just one of the mediums to better understand and decode how our relationships are informed by social identities. The letters reflect some of these complexities in a subtle way. When you read them, most of them talk about the vulnerabilities resulting from being in an inter-caste relationship."