Spring 2023
The first dinner
Not even a date yet. I'd just landed from San Francisco, jetlagged out of my mind, and we somehow lost hours together over food. Looking back, that was the night the rest of this started.
Three years · May 13, 2026
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A letter for you
My Amshu,
Three years ago, on a quiet evening at the Conrad in Bangalore, my whole world quietly tilted toward you, and it has never tilted back. Everything good in my life since that day has somehow had your fingerprints on it.
Loving you across the distance between Mumbai and Bangalore has taught me that the kilometres don't really exist. Not really. Because every morning I wake up and the first place my mind goes is to you, and every night I fall asleep already drafting tomorrow's good-morning text.
You are softness and mischief in the same breath. You are the person who makes me laugh until I forget what I was sad about, and the one who knows the exact shape of every quiet thing I've never said out loud.
Thank you for choosing me, again and again, in a thousand small ways. The calls when you're tired, the screenshots that say 'this reminded me of you,' the little voice notes that I save and replay when I miss you too much.
Three years in, and I am more in love with you than the day we started. Here's to all the years we still get to write together.
Always,
Deepit
Our Story, So Far
Three years of us.
May 13, 2023
Tiamo, the night I told you
Conrad, Bangalore. Tiamo means I love you, so of course that's where I told you for the first time. Three years later, still means it.
January 25, 2025
Narendra Modi Stadium
Our first concert together. Music of the Spheres. You were having the actual time of your life, and I kept watching you instead of the stage.
April 27, 2025
You and Pepper
One of the things I love about you most is how soft you are with him. Best dog mom in the world.
May 4, 2025
South Bombay, in the morning
I walked you through Churchgate and Fort. This one's in front of the Taj, early enough that the city still felt like ours.
May 6, 2025
NMACC, Yayoi Kusama
You love lights, so I took you to the mirrors and dots room. You looked the way the room felt: infinite.
June 20, 2025
Soho House, the night before your birthday
Day-before-birthday dinner. Mumbai sky doing exactly what we needed it to.
June 21, 2025
Lupa, Bangalore
Possibly the best dinner we've had together. Or maybe I just remember it that way because of you.
June 22, 2025
McLaren, in pieces, then assembled
You got me a McLaren Lego and a McLaren tee for my birthday. We built the car together, every brick a small argument, every brick a small love letter.
January 23, 2026
Goa, the proper trip
Calangute beach. Our first real trip. The kind you remember in pieces. Sand, your laugh, salt on everything.
January 24, 2026
Pisco by the Beach
Long lunch. Sea breeze. Cocktails neither of us could pronounce. One of those afternoons that doesn't really end.
January 25, 2026
Anjuna, sunset at Noah
Sunset. Cliffs. You. There's not a lot more to say.
March 9, 2026
Decathlon, hula-hooping
Possibly the funniest thing I've ever filmed. You in the middle of Decathlon, hula hoop spinning, completely fearless. I love you.
April 30, 2026
Bastian by the Beach
An early anniversary dinner. They wrote 'Happy Anniversary' on the plate. We almost didn't eat it.
May 1, 2026
Sunflowers
Because you, and because they look like a small sun in your hands.
May 1, 2026
Luna et Sol, the tiramisu
They heard us say 'anniversary' and brought out a tiramisu with it written on top. Both of us look stupidly happy in this photo. We were.
May 13, 2026
Year three 💜
Three years in. Today. And every day from here.
A whole lot of them
All our firsts.
Three years and counting. Here are the moments we did things for the very first time, together.
A short list (not exhaustive)
Things I love about you.
- 01
The way you laugh with your whole body, like the joke caught you by surprise.
- 02
How you remember tiny things I said weeks ago.
- 03
Your terrible, wonderful taste in late-night snacks.
- 04
The voice you use only with me.
- 05
How you mother-hen me into eating properly when I'm busy.
- 06
Your handwriting. Especially the way you draw your hearts.
- 07
The way you get fiercely defensive about the people you love.
- 08
How you always send me the prettiest skies you see.
- 09
Your patience with me when I'm being impossible.
- 10
The way you pronounce certain words. I will never tell you which ones.
- 11
How safe I feel telling you anything at all.
- 12
That you somehow find me hot even at 7 AM on a Monday.
- 13
The way you make 'home' a feeling instead of a place.
Mumbai ⇄ Bangalore
843 kilometres.
Zero distance.
Long-distance taught us that home isn't a place. It's a person on the other end of every call, every plane ticket, every "goodnight, I miss you."
- Calls per week∞
- Trips takenlost count
- Days apart that didn't matterall of them
The everyday glue
Our long-distance rituals.
Trips are the highlight reel. These are the small things we do almost every night that actually keep us close.
May 13, 2026
Happy3rdanniversary,
Amshu 💜
Thank you for three of the best years of my life.
Here's to all the ones still ahead.
Deepit
where it all began · Conrad, Bangalore