Goliyon Ki Rasleela Ram-Leela

There was once a bard who wrote tales about people warring, making love, giving in to jealousy, turning traitors, and most importantly, being human in some of the most universal ways possible. We now revere him, and quote him in our day-to-day language, sometimes without even knowing that it's his words we are speaking.

It is he who has given us a story of tragic love that we masochistically keep experiencing through different mediums. We know that Romeo and his achingly beautiful Juliette will never live to have kids and die a happy wizened old couple. We know that the forceful....