Apart
from reading fairytales, watching movies and surfing the web, Indians have a
favourite pass time – gossiping, narrating and finding loopholes in every other
family member and neighbour’s marriage stories. If you belong to that category
of family where the grandfather used to tell stories over a lantern, then I’m
sure you must have heard his very own marriage story with the grandmother.
As
they say, no two marriage stories are
alike. Every marriage story has its own set of protagonists, plot twists, climax
and catastrophes.
In
India, the most debated and currently in a shaky position are arranged marriages. The modern youth
have more and more educated and responsible and have broken free from the
ancient tradition of matchmaking by an agent, family member or parents. Like
every other decision, today’s youth are writing their own marriage story.
Sometimes
you get to hear your parents say- “Did you know that ours is an arranged marriage story, but we were in
love with each other from the very first sight?” Sounds confusing right? Just a
fancy statement used to make arranged marriage stories sound a lot better.
Love- marriage stories are in trend now.
It fact, the marriage stories of this
genre are branching out with more and more categories being added to it. Same-sex
marriage stories, inter-caste marriage stories, inter-religion marriage
stories, marriage stories of two unimaginable celebrities to marriage stories of much-awaited famous
people are making daily headlines.
The
latest love marriage story that is
dreamy and has taken the internet by storm is that of Tollywood actor Samantha
Ruth Prabhu and Naga Chaitanya. Theirs is an inter-religion marriage story
where the bride is a Christian and the groom is a Hindu. And guess what is the
best part in their story – they get tell two marriage stories – one Hindu and the
other Christian.
The
debate as to which marriage story is
better – love marriage or arranged marriage – will never end. Both marriage
stories have their unique set of problems and benefits. What matters the most
in any marriage story in the fact
that there should be true love and a meaningful partner who will stay till the
end of the story.
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