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Mitra and Varuna

 


When they first encountered each other, they were least aware that they might grow up having a soft spot for one another. When they got together, they become the guardians of the world that encompasses them. One was the light of dawn while the other was the setting sun. Friendship has the power to change the whole course of life.

Mitra and Varuna always manage to find a way to navigate the labyrinth of life and discover each other again. Mitra felt incomplete without Varuna. Their love for each other propelled forward in a way one could ever imagine. They were porous, entangled, made up of themselves but also of each other. They were successful in their efforts in the whole range of pursuit. 

Varuna is her body's ecosystem. As central as this relationship were to their life, there is a lack of proper vocabulary to describe it. Hands touching hair falling asleep next to each other, tweaking food from plates without asking ; they realised how viscerally affectionate and borderless this bond was! They hold an intimacy that is usually only spoken in a romantic context. They are friendships but they are much deeper than that. They are physical , but they arent sexual. They are romantic but they aren't erotic. 

The close friendships between women and femme has long been perpetuated in popular culture but in this world of heteronormativity, there is no real language to articulate the complex nature of their relationship.












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