Arranged Marriage --- Chapter-1 … First Meeting
Love Marriages …A lot has been written about these time and again ...boy meets girl, love at first sight, parental opposition, triumph against odds, blah blah ...the clichéd stories & outcomes! Let's spare a thought for an age-old institution of Arranged Marriages….Like every ancient stuff, these too have undergone a world of change from yester years. Gone are the days where parents used to arrange the match and the boy n girl get hitched. Well, today there is a complete makeover ....it's quite quirky, fascinating, practical and at times quite funny too. An arranged marriage is not the diktat it once was. It has evolved over the years into a meeting of mutual consent between both parties. My parents, products of an arranged marriage, had outlined the same process for me as well. As parents, their pressures are too many ...education, raise the child to be independent and self-sufficient. And now to get married was their last major responsibility. I ...