India, April 7 -- There is no getting away from this fitness freak called Haroon Khalid when it comes to walking and talking. He takes upon himself unfeasible walking marathons and one starts wondering if he walked all the way from the Lahore University to the University of Toronto. Well, that is his choice for he is young enough to walk as much as he chooses to. But he doesn't stop at that. He then gets down to the task of telling tales about all his walky-talky journeys. That is when the trouble starts and an old woman like me is drawn to join this business with her aching knees. It had happened when he was imagining the Lahore that once was and once again when he decided to play a Mardana of sorts and chase the difficult trails of Guru Nanak by foot. Now, it is said that the Guru was the second most travelled man of the world after Ibn Battuta, of the 'bagal mein jutta' fame who had walked by foot some 75,000 miles! Well, I did my best to hobble a bit with Khalid in the past but this time, he wants me to travel with my mind, that is just a wee bit away from 'Mr. Alzheimer's, through a legend of love told in fiction. I had already known of Heer through the city historian Ishwar Gaur, who took upon himself to study patriarchy through folklore and of course the best place this could be found was in the Kissa of Heer as penned by Waris Shah and came out with an acclaimed book of research: 'Society, Religion and Patriarchy: Exploring Medieval Punjab Through Hir Waris'....