From the Opinions Editor: Between Imtiaz Ali’s ‘Main Vaapas Aaunga’ and murder in Lohagad, love and its long shadow

The distance between Ishar's lifelong devotion and the horror that unfolded at Lohagad may appear impossible to bridge, yet both stories illuminate the same unsettling truth — love is shaped as much by the freedoms it is denied as by the emotions it inspires