Here is a heartfelt love letter from Vineet Mishra to Tanu Shukla — poetic, sincere, and deeply emotional:
My dearest Tanu,
I don’t know if words can truly carry the weight of what I feel for you, but I’ll try — because loving you has taught me the beauty of trying, of showing up, of believing in something greater than logic or plans. It has taught me the courage to feel.
From the moment our worlds collided, you have been my calm in chaos and my rhythm in silence. You danced into my life with a smile that disarmed my doubts and eyes that held the wildness of a thousand stories. You didn’t just walk into my life — you redefined it.
You showed me that love is not in the grand declarations, but in the small, sacred moments — the way you tuck your hair behind your ear when you’re thinking, the excitement in your voice when you talk about dance, or the quiet confidence you carry even when the world doesn’t understand you. And every time I saw those things, I fell a little more in love.
Sometimes I think of all the places we’ve been — the ghats, the bookstores, the cafés where we argued about poetry and politics. Each memory is a page in a book I never want to stop reading. You’ve given my life a kind of poetry I never knew I needed.
Tanu, you are not just my love — you are my home, my muse, my best friend. And even if life scatters us like leaves in the wind, know that every beat of my heart echoes your name.
I love you, not because it’s easy, but because it’s true. Because it’s the only truth I want to live by.
Yours, always and beyond this lifetime,
Vineet