Alessio Perrone writes how Islamophobia is driving a wedge between love and secular values.
It had the makings of a Bollywood remake of Romeo and Juliet: two young people fall in love but a social divide threatens to keep them apart. Then the Supreme Court steps in.
It’s what happened in a landmark verdict this April, centring on a young woman’s right to convert to Islam and marry a Muslim man.
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