MARRIAGE

For the majority marriage is but a ritual, a social custom. Only a selected few consider it a need (if it is one) and these are the ones who marry out of a certain belief.
The concept of arranged marriages as prevalent in India is so despicable. It is the greatest example of mental slavery, an attempt to force oneself into believing that, which otherwise one would vehemently oppose. Imagine two people who have just seen each other (and in many cases not even that) suddenly decide that they are going to be life partners, that they would be with each other through thick and thin. The irony though is that in India it works wonderfully well. It is as if a woman learns (or is taught) to reconcile to her fate whatever it be. I think in the case of India it may not be out of place to describe marriage as an institutionalized slavery of women.