DO WE WANT WHAT WE WANT?

Athavra is a simple man with a clean heart who finds a woman with a cleaner conscience but messy habits. Will it work in a world of dogmatism where a woman who is a hot-mess cannot be a good wife?

We often come across the term opposites attract” when discussing relationships. References can be traced to Plato’s Symposium, which addresses the idea that soulmates are two halves of a soul, each possessing characteristics that the other desires. When these two beings find each other, even though they are poles apart, things just seem to fall in sync.

In the cold, heavy night of Delhi, amidst the smog and Marlboro lights, Atharva sat down outside a bar, his usual spot that held special memories of his college years. It always felt like home, no matter the timeline. With the last drag, he took a deep dive down the nostalgic lane when a voice pierced his thoughts his pram-friend Naman, the last person Atharva anticipated meeting here. He would take a dig at Atharva’s OCD, mocking that one day his heart would be stolen by an extreme opposite. Atharva was a merit student, acing academics and life. He is an open book to Naman, so the dilemma on his face is easy enough to know that something isn’t right. Atharva wasn’t necessarily a complicated person, an honest worker with a decent job who loved nothing more than watching a football match on weekends and had a few friends after college; no one was significant, though, to share his Marlboro. Naman looked at his face, and raised eyebrow meant he was all ears. That’s when Atharva began talking "I met someone.” In a long sigh, screamed Naman, Finally!”