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Al Jazeera
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Catherine Gilon

400 love letters and a play: How two Indian prisoners found love

Anburaj and Revathi met as prisoners and were married while on parole [Courtesy of Anburaj]

At the entrance to a small bright-green house with a wooden door in the village of Kazhuthapali in India’s southern state of Tamil Nadu, sits the King of Love.

That is the literal translation of UA Anburaj’s name. And the 43-year-old lives up to it. The tall, quiet man watches his wife Revathi and their two children – five-year-old son, Agaram, and eight-year-old daughter, Yazhisai – prepare for the local temple festival, and smiles contentedly.

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