Interfaith love a risk as India nationalism surges | News – Times of India Videos

Arbaz Mullah’s love story began, as romances often do, when he first laid eyes on the woman of his dreams, Shweta Kumbhar. Over nearly three years, their courtship in many ways resembled that of any other couple: They went on dates and to movies, snapped selfies, frequented public parks, made each other promises to get married. But those secret vows would never be fulfilled. Soon their conservative neighborhood was abuzz with gossip about a romance between a Hindu woman and Muslim man.