A love letter | The Frontline Weekly
The HinduPublished : Jun 19, 2024 17:07 IST - 6 MINS READ Dear Reader, The origin of love has been a subject of fascination for centuries, and everything from science to literature offers theories, stories, and explanations as to why humans love. Here’s my favourite story: In Plato’s Symposium, a philosophical text written in the form of a dialogue, various speakers offer their perspectives on the nature and origin of love. Aristophanes suggests that the desire for love and the pursuit of a romantic partner is, in fact, a quest to reunite with one’s original other half. While Aristophanes’ myth is not meant to be taken literally, it serves as a powerful metaphor for the human experience of love and the deep-seated desire for connection and belonging. “It makes us feel nauseated and ill,” Kartik writes in this short, beautiful piece—“On love and other demons”—in the latest edition of Frontline, where he traces the complexities and depths of love through Celine Song’s film Past Lives, Gabriel García Márquez’s novel Love in the Time of Cholera, and more.
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