ROMANCE GONE WRONG Romance in real life rarely seems to play out the way it does in Hindi movies or Mills & Boon paperbacks. At least, that’s been my admittedly limited experience of it. I witnessed a fair amount of awkward courtships in college, with boys trying out moves – and lines – they’d learned from movies and TV shows. These attempts never seemed to work very well and were invariably met with ego-puncturing derision. When a businessman’s two college-going sons unexpectedly eloped with the two daughters of a widowed mother, it came as a complete surprise, especially as none of the protagonists in this little drama appeared to be especially attractive or glamorous. A colleague of those days ran off with his landlord’s daughter and despite some initial friction between both sets of parents, an amicable reconciliation eventually took place, sans much of the melodramatic histrionics that would attend such an event in a Bollywood tear-jerker. Honestly, I would ha...