Butterflies

"Go away. There was nothing between us."
Tears brimming her eyes as her lips quivered in anguish and fear. Fear of losing someone whom she had been trying to hold onto. Tragedy was slowly creeping in her life yet again.

He stood there silently, a lone tear slipping from his eyes. Those words were enough to shatter his heart into pieces. His teary vision had already blurred her image making him realize that reality was far different from the fantasy he had woven in his mind. The fantasy of having a future with the love of his life.

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An angsty Indian romance story set in the late nineteenth century when widow remarriage was finally legalized by the British Indian government but was still an anomaly and sinful pratice in most of the Indian/Hindu household.

Dhrubojyoti Ray, a patriotic author falls for his childhood friend Shilpi Mitra again, who was now the young widow of famous landlord Gurunath Sinha, after meeting her in their hometown after almost a decade. Will there love successfully bloom into the most beautiful flower or meet an unexpected end before forming a bud?