Girls in love is not a new thing and has been an evergreen bollywood formula that has produced some of the biggest hits that the industry has known. A girl, A boy and Love. Sounds alluring, Right? Well that is what happened with 19-year old Manali Singh, a first year electronics engineering student in Navodaya College, Raichur. Like many college girls under the spell of bollywood romances, she too had a boyfriend and a Love-affair. A Love-affair that cost her her-life. She was in Love with Shiju, a boy studying in Navodaya Dental College, Raichur. Life was all rose until one day they had a small-fight on some petty issue and Shiju left for his hometown in Ahmedabad. Missing him after a couple of days, Manali sent him an SMS asking him to call her. Not finding any reply from Shiju, she sent him another SMS. Still no reply and she sent him another SMS and another and another until finally the count become 33. In came the reply this time that swept Manali of her feet. It read “Don’t Harass Me”. Heartbroken, she sent him a last SMS saying that she will never call him again and hung herself from a hook in her hostel room while her roommates were out for dinner.

Who is responsible for Manali’s death? Was it Shiju fault? Or is it the case of a girl, immature for her age and not strong enough to face the hardship of Love-life, which it at times demands? These are some of the questions that remains to be answered.

True-Love unlike anything else known or seen in this world, is blind. Love, be it between a man and wife or between a father and son or between kids and their grandparent or man and an animal is a complex relationship. A relationship that cannot be can be explained in a couple of lines or that of which one can be made to understand. It is a spell that can be understood only by soaking oneself in its drizzle.