Marital Martyrs

With the fifth semester just dawning upon everyone in college, we have a lot of time to sit and talk. Talk about absolutely anything. In the past two weeks, I have been lending a patient ear to not less than three really disturbing stories. Apparently, there is a trend in which the educated Indian parent thinks in a very Neanderthal fashion. A lot of friends of the better sex have been “complaining” that their parents would not allow them to pursue higher education as it reduces their chances of getting a suitable groom. This has come as a shocking revelation and is a bit hard to digest.

Apparently, in the marriage market, the husband has to be better educated and should earn more than his wife. From what I know, people marry to be happy. And which uxorious husband would not want his wife to be more successful than him ? Well, that we he could always say that he made the better choice. (:P)  But the more serious aspect is that – the country is possibly losing out on some of the great female leaders.

This episode perhaps sheds some perspective over the various mahila vikas yojanas of the Centre. If the educated city folks are so unrelenting, the village farmer won’t think twice before marrying off his daughter to a Sheikh or a goat. All I can do is sympathise – because one can’t go and try to put sense into someone who has seen more summers than you.

Also, keeping aside all the problems that the nation would possible face with regard to dearth of female talent, what would people like me do ? Unmarried at 30. Looking out for females – when most of them have been married of to ugly guys five years older to them just for the heck of it !

Just one of those things where you think of the times – one step forward, then two back.

It seems that he's written something new. Aha ! :P

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