New Season: Love Commandos. Starting Wednesday, July 26th.

They seemed like superheroes. In 2012, when a group called the Love Commandos leapt into the public eye in India, they pledged to do something that most government agencies and police departments couldn't do: protect and shelter young lovers on the run.

In India, the vast majority of marriages are arranged. Couples who choose to marry against their parents' wishes can be cast out of their own communities, arrested — even, in some extreme cases, murdered – for choosing romantic love over family duty.

But are the Love Commandos the caped crusaders for love they vow to be?

NPR's final season of Rough Translation takes us on a rare look inside that secret shelter with its strange mix of revolutionary ideas, petty grievances and old traditions that die hard. The stories from couples who lived there will make you ask yourself: How much are you willing to sacrifice in the name of love?

Listen to the trailer for Love Commandos, Rough Translation's new series.

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