But she refuses to bargain with her romantic expectations. Maybe it is all those silly Shah Rukh films and interviews. I have mad standards, I am expecting a movie star in real life, we hear her say to herself. The price she pays for these ‘standards’ are loneliness and some social discomfort. Her exes don’t face such terrible odds in love, they’ll do all right. No man in Delhi with the same attributes as her will face the same shallow pool of romantic options, and the resulting fears and predicaments. If I were a man with the same job and degree, I would be swimming in a sea of dates and
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