‘True love has no bars, no locks or constraints. It crosses each obstacle to make its way. It spreads its wings to soar toward the stars. No earthly power will make it stop or stay.’ These words said by Kerstin Gier, a German author, hold truth and intensity. Love is passionate and has no age limitations or gender boundaries. It is a selfless feeling that makes our soul feel alive.
However, not all love stories have happy endings. Some end on tragic notes, and not everyone has the guts to fight for their partners. Among all of them, the pair who fights with the world to stay together is exceptional. One such pair is Sindhur and Spoorthy. Both girls fought hard with their families, relatives, society, and the rest of the world. Despite all the differences and hurdles, they stayed by each other through thick and thin, despite all the differences and hurdles & proved that love has no bars.
HatkeStory proudly presents Love Has No Bars – Hatke Love Story of Sindhur Kashyap and Spoorthy. Let’s read their journey from Sindhur Kashyap’s point of view.
I’m Sindhur Kashyap. I work as a Manager in an E-Commerce company, and my partner Spoorthy also works in the same domain. I was born and brought up in Delhi. Currently, we both are living in Bangalore.
Our love story is average like any other couple, but our society needs time to accept it. We have an age difference of 8 years. I have been seeing her since the day she was born. She is my cousin’s brother’s daughter. Her parents used to like me a lot till they came to know about our love for each other, and they always advised her to be strong and bold like me since her childhood, but things eventually changed.
Before I met Spoorthy, I was a different person. I used to mind my business like my work, my life, my priorities. It used to be as things should happen according to my ways, and I was a person. If I wish for anything, let it be a thing or a person, I will get it. Before I met Spoorthy, I was in many relationships but never felt the same way I had ever felt for her.
However, Spoorthy changed it all, the direction of my life and my vision of love. In her presence, my anger melted like ice melting against heat.
In October 2016, a day before my birthday, her parents invited me. I met her after so many years. Until then, I knew I was attracted to her, but I never revealed anything. Neither I intended to do it, as she is my far relative, and there would be adrift in the families if I shared my love or feelings with her.
Love Story of Spoorthy and Sindhur Kashyap
Although, when I saw her, I couldn’t hold myself back from confessing my love. I told her about my previous relationships. She refused to acknowledge my feelings and said, ‘Maybe you are missing your ex’s. That’s why you are having these feelings for me, but I don’t feel that way. Neither I intend to go against my parents.’ After hearing her answer, I never brought the topic again. To concentrate on my life, I blocked her from all the social media sites. I wasn’t angry but sad because what I felt for her was different from my previous relationships. I wanted to share my life with her. But alas, she was reluctant, so I accepted her decision wholeheartedly.
The next day, she messaged me to ask for a meeting. I was confused but agreed to it. On 11th October, we met again, and she said she wanted to give our relationship a genuine chance. She loved being around me, and I was over the moon. I held her hand and promised not to leave it ever again. Before dropping her at class, we roamed for a while and had pastries. In her absence, I purchased a ring to propose to her properly. She came out after finishing her class, and I proposed Spoorthy with the ring. Since that day, she has never taken it out.
From that day onward, our love had no bars. We started seeing each other more often. Almost daily, I used to finish work and travel 40km to reach her college to grab a cup of coffee. We’d chat in the night and find reasons to see each other whenever we could. On weekends, she would bunk her classes to be with me. She wasn’t the type of girl who would skip classes for anyone, but she did it for me.
For the next few months, we bonded strongly, and the intensity of our relationship skyrocketed. We began to plan for the future. I told her that it wasn’t going to be easy. She already knew it, but she was ready to face the consequences. I was willing to do anything for her, so we started purchasing household items. I didn’t want her to take anything from her house except a dress that she was wearing the day she left her home, and that was why we had purchased everything in advance.
On 7th February 2017, the day that changed our life and relation. That day we had no plans of seeing each other. Still, I went to meet her. I didn’t know why I was feeling anxious? I was waiting outside her college, she came, and we had a casual meeting before I dropped Spoorthy outside her house. When she reached her home, her father inquired about her whereabouts. He took her phone to read our messages. Everything came out because we never deleted anything from our phones. He started interrogating her.
Somehow she texted me, ‘Dad has come to know everything about us.’ To say that I was shocked would be an understatement. I was baffled, and I didn’t know how to react. On the other hand, Spoorthy had confessed everything to her parents. She wasn’t the type of girl who would ever disobey her parents, but for me, she stood firm for our love.
She told them about our relationship, and in case if she would ever marry, she would marry me. They were angry, so they asked her to choose between them and me. Spoorthy refused to make a choice saying ‘she wanted both her parents and me.’
The matter reached my house, and my father told me to discontinue the relationship, but I refused to abide. I was sure about her, and if she was ready to take the stand, how could I back out? I told my father that I was going to be with her. I will take the relationship forward, and our love has no bars.
I contacted her father to sit and discuss everything to fix our meeting, but he refused to show up. Instead, he warned me against it and said, ‘I have connections with politicians, and I’ll make sure you pay for your deeds.’ His threat didn’t affect me. We continued with the relationship.
At home, things started getting worse for Spoorthy. She was locked up in her house, mentally and physically tortured too. Her parents would accompany her everywhere, and they used to sit outside her college to keep an eye on her actions. Whereas I had no clue about whatever was happening at her place. We were not in contact for a while then I began to call her from public booths. Somehow she would manage to call me from her grandmother’s home. I just asked her if there is a chance she is going to her classes to give her a phone, and we can speak to each other and understand each other’s feelings and pain.
She revealed everything about what issues she is facing in her house, and I told her to stay calm and not indulge in any fights with her parents. Her father took her to Human Rights Professional Mr. Sreedhar, and he told her that they’d harm us if we did anything like this and continued our relationship.
Honestly, no one would understand the love and pain which we were going through. Her parents had a love marriage 25 years ago, and I thought they would understand our feelings, but they refused to acknowledge. For them, our love didn’t even exist. We attempted to contact LGBT community supporters but received no help from anyone at that moment.
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