NEW DELHI, Sept. 25 -- The moment Rashmi S. saw him on Platform No.3 of Delhi's Rajiv Chowk Metro station, she ran to hug him. The college sweethearts were meeting after six months of seeing each other only on WhatsApp video calls. "It was weird, like good weird...going beyond the colony after so long," laughs Rashmi, who doesn't wish to share her surname since she had told the family she was stepping out at 8.30am on 13 September to meet her tutor.
For the 20-something couple, the Metro station in central Delhi was always the preferred meeting spot, whether they were on way to college or on a date, as they live at opposite ends of the Yellow Line. It was also the last place they had held hands before the pandemic locked us inside our home...