This is not your typical love story; it is a Yash Chopra film. That’s what my friend said when I recollected to her my travels across Europe, meeting and bidding farewell to M—. I met M— in New Delhi in 2017 and again in Europe the next year as we tried to work out if our romance was meant to be a short-lived summer fling or had the potential for a longer engagement. In the end, we decided it was not going to work out. She worked in London, and I in New Delhi—it was an impossible cartographic challenge that no passion could overcome.