From Russia to India, with love: When two souls found each other

An unlikely love story unfolded on the shores of India between a Russian artist and an Indian photographer.

In today's day and age, love has been modernised, you can now find your soulmate (for the time being) with a right swipe. However, back in the day, love was pure and simple, one deep gaze would end with marriage and children.

Plato's concept of soulmates is one of the earliest, and states that humans originally had four arms, four legs, and a single head made of two faces. They had great strength that threatened to conquer the gods. So Zeus came up with a solution, he split them in half as punishment and they were cursed to forever long for their other half.

It is said that when the two find each other, there is an unspoken understanding, that they feel unified and would know no greater joy than that unity.

One such story of soulmates, albeit an unlikely one, is that of a Russian national, Galina Valiullina and an Indian photographer, Sudarsan Gouda. It has all the elements of an amazing fairy-tale romance, there's fate, luck, timing and a happily-ever-after.