The 'Untouchable' who cycled from India to Sweden ... for love

February 11, 2016 20:28

Charlotte Von Schedvin was a blonde, blue-eyed young woman who hailed from Swedish nobility.

PK Mahanandia was a poor art student from eastern India, seen as an "untouchable" in his country's caste system.

Yet their chance meeting in Delhi, late 1975, when Von Schedvin asked him to paint her portrait, led to him cycling from India to Sweden to be with her -- a mammoth 3,600km journey spanning eight countries and taking over four months to complete.

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