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Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh Pal
True love brings happiness. Romantic love, if true, should also bring ‘happiness’. How can one know what is true love? True love has four elements. First of all, mindful awareness of kindness can offer happiness. If a person cannot offer happiness, that is not true love. In romantic love, if you are not able to make the other person happy, that is not true love. If partners are not able to offer happiness, both will suffer. The second element of love is ‘compassion’. Compassion is the kind of energy that can remove suffering. If partners cannot transform or take care of their suffering, it is not true love. So the second element of love, ‘Karuna’, should be contemplated by partners. Romantic or not romantic is not important; the thing important is whether it is true love or not. The third element of true love is ‘joy’. If partners cry all the time or make the other cry, that is not true love, romantic or unromantic. The fourth element of true love is “inclusiveness”. His suffering is her suffering and his happiness is her happiness and vice-versa. There is no individual suffering or happiness anymore. In true love, there is no separation, no frontier between partners. One can’t say that’s ‘your’ problem! Problems and suffering belong to each other. If romantic love has these four elements, it can bring a lot of happiness. If romantic love is successful and partners cultivate kindness and compassion, very soon their love will be all-embracing. Only if they are no longer the object of each other’s love, their love continues to grow and embrace all things around; happiness becomes limitless. The author leaves the decision on readers to decide, whether the story of Sameer and Shefali is a story of true love or not!
Dr. Ritambhara Richharia
Dr. Ritambhara Richharia is, by profession, a trained plant biotechnologist, having done her Masters and Doctorate in Biochemistry from one of the best universities of the world i.e., Banaras Hindu University. She has been a brilliant scholar throughout her career and has won many scholarships and awards including GATE during her career. Her passion for writing has resulted in authoring several competition guides for the students of postgraduate level to various dictionaries which are very useful for the students of all classes up to graduation. She changed her career from research to helping students from the school level who are very bright and require extra attention. In the last 20 years, she has been working as a professional guru to help teenagers. She guides the best of the brains towards shaping a dream career of their own choice. She is a person dedicated to helping underprivileged in the society and runs her own NGO. In Varanasi District of Eastern Uttar Pradesh, wherein the last 10 years, she has helped more than 500 girls/ladies to be trained in various vocational programmes like stitching, sewing, etc. so that they can have a respectable life. At the same place, she arranged two teachers to give basic education to 50 students of the age group 5-8 years who could not make it to schools as they belong to very poor families. This NGO is non-granted and wholly supported by Dr. Ritambhara and her parents. This is her first step towards writing a novel. We hope readers appreciate her work.
