The Marriage Story
One would almost wonder why there's so much hype going on about marriage nowadays. Facebook flooded with adds of matrimony sites, Cell networks sending you messages with tips on how to have a successful marriage, people going to dhongi babas clutching horoscopes, building houses according to vastu to have a no-fight married life and so on and so forth goes the list of what is happening around on the subject of marriage. We watch movies of love stories and return home teary eyed getting emotional over how the hero got the girl he loved after so many action and chasing sequences ending with a silly sentimental twist. We laud the hero and his girl for fighting hard to make their love successful. But we never ask ourselves if they lived happily ever after once they got married. For us, getting married is the happily ever after. And no questions or comments on that. Factionist fathers, bothersome brothers and unmarried sisters in tow are not the problems faced by youngsters t...