Have you ever loved anyone before?

How would Shravan answer this question?

Sometimes it feels like he has shut his heart too tight, it will take efforts to have him open up and confess. His bottled up feelings have been converted into aggression that he uses while fighting his cases. Yes, he has become very practical when it comes to love, merely because the first time he loved, his heart got crushed. Cannot even imagine the pain Shravan must have undergone as an alone teenager with no other friends than Sumo in an unknown place like London where he had to prove himself. I dont think he would consent wholly to simply an arranged marriage, he even cross questioned that girl that his Chachi was trying to hitch him up with. He wants someone to agree with all the things he aspires to do in life rather than make him change anything about himself.

Originally posted by: RTme0w

Sometimes it feels like he has shut his heart too tight, it will take efforts to have him open up and confess. His bottled up feelings have been converted into aggression that he uses while fighting his cases. Yes, he has become very practical when it comes to love, merely because the first time he loved, his heart got crushed. Cannot even imagine the pain Shravan must have undergone as an alone teenager with no other friends than Sumo in an unknown place like London where he had to prove himself. I dont think he would consent wholly to simply an arranged marriage, he even cross questioned that girl that his Chachi was trying to hitch him up with. He wants someone to agree with all the things he aspires to do in life rather than make him change anything about himself.

Originally posted by: chicksoup

Or I wondered if his experiences with other women have led him to believe that love is just an illusion...

Originally posted by: RTme0w

I have a feeling there were never other women. He was too focused on fulfilling his father's dream of becoming a lawyer that he never let himself experience any romance. The kind of person Shravan was when he left and the one he is now might seem to be drastically different, but the soul is the same. He had just one friend in the form of Suman and when even she left his side, he might have alienated himself from all emotions whatsoever. Happens to victims of child trauma (not that I'm implying he has any mental complications, its a pretty normal thing).

All the women in his life has somewhere disappointed him.
His mother, the women he loved brutally, left him.
the person whose unconditional love is the child's largest nutrition was sucked out of his life and the remains were dried up by Ramnath.
The other woman, who meant his whole life to him, besides his books, left him in the most brutal way when he needed her the most.
It's a marvel that he survived both the battles. But the scars remain. It will take a lot of effort by Sumo to fade out his scars. But at present, those scars are still healing.
He doesn't seem to have stopped loving, but has COMPLETELY accepted his belief that he will never receive love.

The other women he has encountered are vain. Either bimbos or witches. Not at all worthy of his attention.
But the two women he looked up to, failed him miserably.
Now that he has finally managed to has seen the face below Sumo's mask, he got assured that he has got one person to hold onto. The only person he can open up to, the one who knows all about him except one secret.
So now, he's being careful, very careful, to not lose one thing that means his only support which he got after suffering so much.
She means the world to him. It's out there for us to see.
He is just not being obvious about it anymore. But yes, he still loves her.
But he has stopped expecting romantic partnership from her.

Originally posted by: potterginny

All the women in his life has somewhere disappointed him.
His mother, the women he loved brutally, left him.
the person whose unconditional love is the child's largest nutrition was sucked out of his life and the remains were dried up by Ramnath.
The other woman, who meant his whole life to him, besides his books, left him in the most brutal way when he needed her the most.
It's a marvel that he survived both the battles. But the scars remain. It will take a lot of effort by Sumo to fade out his scars. But at present, those scars are still healing.
He doesn't seem to have stopped loving, but has COMPLETELY accepted his belief that he will never receive love.

The other women he has encountered are vain. Either bimbos or witches. Not at all worthy of his attention.
But the two women he looked up to, failed him miserably.
Now that he has finally managed to has seen the face below Sumo's mask, he got assured that he has got one person to hold onto. The only person he can open up to, the one who knows all about him except one secret.
So now, he's being careful, very careful, to not lose one thing that means his only support which he got after suffering so much.
She means the world to him. It's out there for us to see.
He is just not being obvious about it anymore. But yes, he still loves her.
But he has stopped expecting romantic partnership from her.

Originally posted by: chicksoup

Other women..as in the women his friends dated..the divorce cases he took up...he had a general disdain for women...that was not just for Sumo...we saw that in the divorce case he settled...and with Urvashi..

Originally posted by: chicksoup

Very well put.

I agree with the first half fully...as for the bullying part- I never agreed it was only one sided..he used to blackmail her to get his things done too...like get her to cook his fav dish etc..it was never one sided...and apparently she used to be his agony aunt when it came to the fight between his parents...just that at one point, she finally exploded.

All the women in his life has somewhere disappointed him.
His mother, the women he loved brutally, left him.
the person whose unconditional love is the child's largest nutrition was sucked out of his life and the remains were dried up by Ramnath.
The other woman, who meant his whole life to him, besides his books, left him in the most brutal way when he needed her the most.
It's a marvel that he survived both the battles. But the scars remain. It will take a lot of effort by Sumo to fade out his scars. But at present, those scars are still healing.
He doesn't seem to have stopped loving, but has COMPLETELY accepted his belief that he will never receive love.

The other women he has encountered are vain. Either bimbos or witches. Not at all worthy of his attention.
But the two women he looked up to, failed him miserably.
Now that he has finally managed to has seen the face below Sumo's mask, he got assured that he has got one person to hold onto. The only person he can open up to, the one who knows all about him except one secret.
So now, he's being careful, very careful, to not lose one thing that means his only support which he got after suffering so much.
She means the world to him. It's out there for us to see.
He is just not being obvious about it anymore. But yes, he still loves her.
But he has stopped expecting romantic partnership from her.