What is the Love story of Moideen and Kanjana Real Incident?

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A yellow tinge on the shimmering marbles of the most adorned memorial of love, the Taj Mahal could evoke the attention of the Indian government, but the most poignant love memorials located in

A yellow tinge on the shimmering marbles of the most adorned memorial of love, the Taj Mahal could evoke the attention of the Indian government, but the most poignant love memorials located in North Kerala still remain unnoticed. Sitting beneath the garlanded photograph of B P Moideen, at B P Moideen Seva Mandir, Moideen's beloved Kanchana Mala recalls her 'rebirth' as the Kanchanedathi (elder sister Kanchana) of the locals after the unexpected death of her lover Moideen.

Their love story is famous is Mukkom, where Moideen and Kanchana grew up, she the daughter of a Hindu landlord, he the scion of a wealthy Muslim family. The families knew one another and the two played and went to school together. Until, of course, they fell in love. Kanchana was put under a house arrest that lasted 25 years, ending only because Moideen died while trying to save the victims of a boat wreck.

"When a friend of Moideen's told my sister that he had drowned in the brook of the Chaliyar river while saving the victims of a boat wreck, I could not even believe it. I wanted to end my life and even attempted suicide," she recalls. She was 41 years old then, Moideen was 44.

After he died, hostilities ceased, in a manner of speaking. "Moideen's mother reminded me of my duties to him and persuaded me to take up the services started by him," she recollects. Moideen, a service-oriented person, had started a centre to empower destitute women.

And so, Kanchana, now 69, chose to live as the widow of a man she had never married, choosing instead to help hundreds of destitute women in and around her village, even 30 years after the tragic death of Moideen.