My dear Avni,
You know this more than me that there was a time when Indians were fighting for their freedom & they finally got their independence after two hundred years. India celebrated its freedom on 15th August, 1947.
But before that, in the year of 1945, the time when India was about to win back its land from us after so many years of struggle & fight, so much cruelty, servitudes, protests & carnages were still there. In this mud of hatred, there was a budding flower of love in my heart for someone I had never imagined. You!
While I was busy in my training in Great Britain, I never thought that there was a young Indian girl somewhere in Calcutta who would be the centre of my life one day.
This is not a love letter for you, neither a story about independence of India; it's in fact our story. It's a memoir of what we have been through in those days. A story about our forbidden romance, our magnetism towards each-other & independence of the love that I held in my heart for you.
I have collected and carefully kept few pictures as memory from the past that I am going to attach on this diary as I write this memoir so that it will be easier for others to visualise and understand how it was like to live in that time.
Some say, "The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt within the heart."
Yes, I completely agree. To feel your heart, I have never needed a word. Just a look and I could say what you were thinking, it was all written in your eyes. Every time I saw you, I read & learnt something new about you.
"Love needs no words!" True that is.
Indeed, our love was never dependent on any communication. Our eyes spoke more than the chaos going on around us.
When I won't be around, people will read my diary as history but some of them will definitely understand our feelings and one day, they will be true lovers like us.
I am dedicating this story to those true lovers and my love, to you.
Date: 10. 02. 1952
Edwin Brown
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1945, My Love Story (Unedited & Raw Version)
Ficción históricaThe love story of a British young soldier named Edwin Brown is recounted by himself in his diary-how and when he met her, how he fell in love with her, and how he fought for her. Immerse yourself in the realm of Indian history. Step into the vintage...
