"All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way," writes Leo Tolstoy in the opening line of his saga of thwarted passion, Anna Karenina. All great love stories too are unhappy, but each in their own way. Brokeback Mountain [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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Lakshmi,
I wonder if you’re just setting us up for ‘Tristan and Isolde’, coming soon to a theater near you. Or the new ‘King Kong’. Now that’s a tragic love story. I have this hunch that the tragic dimension underlying ‘merkin culchah is the disconnect we feel between our private and public personae.
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