Finding love during the lockdown

Brut India

This couple from Kolkata matched on Tinder and went on to navigate Covid, exams, lockdowns to be together. Here’s their story. #SwipeStories #TinderIndia

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00:00His pictures were breathtaking.

00:02He literally mentioned every single small thing about him in his bio in a very cute manner.

00:09Even after we matched, I used to go to his profile just to take a look at his picture.

00:30You know, Tinder has a small feature like highlighting your small hobbies, like if you're

00:45a potter head, if you're an art enthusiast, if you have some interest in music.

00:49For us queer folks, it's not very much easy to, you know, go and get somebody like, you

00:55know, in a normal situation like a date because we don't have the luxury of doing that.

01:00When we used to call each other, we usually pick up one of the topics that we both have

01:05similar interest in and both of us considered that as a date.

01:09Tinder is a very kind of a boon to us, you can say.

01:20And for me, the situation was also like getting out of hand that, you know, when the second

01:25wave just hit, I was in a stressful situation because I couldn't even help my own people.

01:31I requested him, just come out from your home.

01:33All of a sudden, we are going for a dinner and all of a sudden, we just decided to go

01:37for a walk.

01:38We just took long roads by Victoria Memorial Maidan and beautiful shady roads in Kolkata.

01:46I just felt that that evening was something different.

01:49And when you have the right person right next to you, everything is just magical.

01:54And that's where I think our first kiss happened.

01:56And that's what I call a date.

02:16He doesn't know how to write in Bengali.

02:19He tried something, writing me in Bengali.

02:22It's one of the best 90s Bengali romantic song.

02:26I used to be very unkempt at that time because of my duty schedule and Dato.

02:31Whenever we used to meet, he used to give me a chumpy on my hair.

02:42If it wasn't for Tinder, we wouldn't have met at all.

02:44It took one swipe and then medicines and spices mashed together.

02:50When I'm with him, I feel like kindness is the greatest weapon that ever can exist on this earth.

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