The Growing Umbrella of Love Marriages In India

It is often said that love is blind, but in today’s materialistic world it is more apt to say and believe that “love is not blind, it sees but never minds”, which may be the main reason behind the sudden increase in the number of love marriages in India.

We Indians pride ourselves on being one of the oldest civilizations with still feel a lot of attachment to our roots and traditions. All parents expect their child to get married to the partner from the same caste and religion but alas love knows no boundary and there is steady surges in the number of inters caste as well as inter religion marriages.

Girls today have come a long way from the times when they were forced to marry a guy even without meeting them as their parents have approved them. During the course of time the fabric of our society is now more flexible with the girls finally getting equal status and opportunities as boys thereby reducing the gap between opposite sexes. This freedom also gave opportunity to the inmates of the land of Soni Mahiwal and Heer ranjha to come out and declare their love in open and no longer be the slaves of their parent’s whims and fancies. This has surely brought about a increase in number of love marriages in India.

However love marriages in India have just found their footings in the urban regions where education has established its base and what is more interesting to note that love marriages are still not very positively received by many parents and the couples in love have to struggle doubly hard to enjoy the same respect as given to people entering matrimony through arranged marriages.

Though the only difference between love and arranged marriage is that the couples have known each other for a long time and have decided to enter matrimonial alliance after careful deliberation and hence love marriages in India should be give proper acceptance. Difference in caste and religion is one of the biggest opposition factors for love marriages in India as parents usually have the notion how their kids would adjust in an alien environment. Other factors that act as hurdles in love marriage in India are variation in economic conditions, non matching horoscopes and the fear that their kid would be lost to them forever.

For parents still not convinced about their children’s choice of life partner and oppose love marriages in India, nothing could defined love better than great philosopher Fredrick Nietzsche” There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”

So accept the love of your child and give them blessings for a prosperous married life.