India Love Venture, a social media initiative that celebrates real-life love tales outdoors the “shackles of religion, caste, ethnicity and gender”, has been recognised as one of many 10 finalists for the 2023 International Pluralism Award.
It has been shortlisted from amongst 200 submissions from 60 nations by an unbiased jury, the India Love Venture has been spotlighted for sharing tales of unions that “defy conventional boundaries” and for ‘countering prejudice’.
The initiative was launched in 2020 by Niloufer Venkatraman, Samar Halarnkar and Priya Ramani. The initiative connects {couples} with professional bono attorneys and counsellors to help their unions.
“We have now to remind ourselves of this pluralism…If there’s something that may handle the threats to pluralism, it’s the easy act of affection,” Halarnkar.
“Subsequent 12 months is a giant one for us. We hope to publish a ebook, and our sequence produced by Dharmatic Leisure for Amazon Prime needs to be out in early 2024. It’s going to have six episodes, every telling the story of a pair featured on India Love Venture,” Ramani mentioned.
“The creativity, braveness, and dedication proven by this 12 months’s finalists is so necessary at this second,” mentioned Meredith Preston McGhie, Secretary Basic of the International Centre for Pluralism. Every winner will obtain a prize of $50,000 (Canadian {dollars}).
