Vox pop: 50 shades and beyond
Does love mean a different colour to different people? Eight men, from a poet and a restaurateur to architecture students, name their colour of love.
Love has many faces. It comes in different shapes and sizes. But, does love mean different colour to different people? We asked eight men around us, and this is what they have to say.
Cipun Mishra, Poet
Love, for all we know, has been the multi-coloured rainbow at the end of your rainy days, and sometimes, the dark night sky that stretches longer than we can wait for a flicker of sunlight. But, rain always subsides and night grey always gives way to morning bright. The colour of love is passion; it is coloured with poetry – it will never be one shade for as long as we have different stories on our tongues.
Rahul Gandhi, Founder, Tamboo
My colour of love is... well.. colourless. Not because love has no colours...but because my love is borderless... boundless. My colour of love is such that it takes the colour of my lover. It lets my lover be what she wants to be...and also lets me be what I want to be, even while we paint each other with our unique, individual colours.
Sahil Gupta, Restaurateur
My colour of love is white, as I like to paint my own canvas. Some days it’s yellow, some days it black and some days it stays just white. I believe in loving one and all equally and I believe in loving a lot. Animals, humans, nature, there is love everywhere and really there can’t be any one colour of love.
Madhav Nandan, Fashion Design Student
Colour of love is not a definite one, but it is something that makes you happy and feels lively. We can associate different colours with different people we love and it is guided by our feelings, emotions and relationship.
Siddhant Manocha, Architecture Student
I love the colour black because of its many different connotations. Often associated with fear of the unknown, it depicts the uncertainty of tomorrow. However, at the same time its many shades of power and authority entail a sense of control over any situation.
Adit Poonia, Architecture Student
In between the blues and greens, there’s always a lining of grey. I like a sense of balance and the colour grey gives me that sense of calm. It invokes a sense of settlement, given it goes with everything. I also find a sense of clean and order with the colour grey.
Abhishek Kumar Singh, Associate at TIAA
The pretentiousness of colour red, summarises for me, the whole gamut of emotions one goes through when in love. Every aspect of love, be it the thrill of secret meetings, the angst of separation, the joy of union or all the exuberance that comes with a new entrant in life; or for that matter any of these bring a grandiose feeling to oneself of experiencing life as it is, a sinusoidal curve.
Vineet Kanodia, Account Management Trainee
Pure and true souls are always contrasting in nature. Similarly black and white together compliments and balance each other. Their combination signifies strength and purity, which is actually a symbol of true love.
From the February–March 2018 issue of FHM India.
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