The Portrayal of Indian Marriages in the Stories The Old...
The Portrayal of Indian Marriages in the Stories The Old Woman and The Bhorwani Marriage
Culture is comprised of those things which we tend to cherish, and those things, which are important
to us, being therefore the accepted and patterned ways of behaviour of a given people. India is one of
the richest countries in the importance it gives to its culture and heritage. Marriage forms an important
of Indian culture and traditions and is considered as one of the major pillars of society.
A traditional Indian marriage is an arranged affair in which the decision of the perfect spouse is the
parents , mostly the mother s, as is shown in the short story, The Bhorwani Marriage , written by Murli
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This would justify parents wanting to choose a spouse for their children, especially for the daughters
as they would need a man who would look after them and protect them, not just love them. As hard as
it may be for us to imagine, love, in those days, did not play a very important part in marriages.
Coming back to the freedom to marry out of choice, even in A Stench of Kerosene , written by Amrita
Pritam and from her collection called, Land of Five Rivers Stories from the Punjab , we see that
although Guleri liked Manak, the decision of marriage was not hers and Manak would have to ask her
father for permission, If you want me, go and ask my father for my hand. However, in The Old
Woman , written by Manik Bandyopadhyay, one of Bengal s most prolific writers, and from his
collection of short stories called, Of women, outcasts, peasants and rebels A selection of Bengali Short
Stories , the boy Nanda has married a person of his own choice, who the whole family has found faults
with, not because she was not a good person, but because her faults were considered bad according to
Indian tradition, Nanda had chosen her, married her against the wishes of the family . Here we see,
how not only was
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