Tina Dabi hails from Bhopal while Athar Khan is a native from South Kashmir. Them filing a divorce has come as a shock and has stirred discussions in the country.

For every naysayer who cites Dabi and Khan’s divorce as tangible evidence of “love jihad,” I can pull up double the number of successful interfaith marriages.

Theirs was a momentous union surrounded by loud chatter in the media since Dabi, a Dalit woman, was marrying a Muslim man.