Marriage of the New age
Last weekend, I got the shock of my lifetime. I was talking to my friend he said "... I got my divorce awarded last month..". What .... Divorce.... you mean Divorce? I thought that this guy is joking, as he is capable of it... It actually took me a week to digest the fact that he actually got divorced.The D word is of course not a bad word, we do see all the stats that says number of divorces are in the raise in India. But this is the first time that it has happened to someone who is so close to me and the way I reacted remained me that I am still a typical Indian middle class man by heart.
The worst thing in this case is that this guy has filed for his divorce within 3 months of his marriage. Which literally means that the marriage should actually be declared null and void. This irritates me more. All I wanted to know if you don't want marriage, then why in the gods name should you agree for one. I understand the amount of pressure that our parents put us under. I have personally undergone that. But in what way dose that justifies your decision to destroy another person's life.
I don't say that we should be compromising for everything, I too subscribe to the view " Zid karo... Duniya badalo...." but does that means you breakaway from the core of our culture? The success of the institution of marriage is what Indian culture is known for, if we start breaking that away, then we are left with nothing. I understand divorce if it happens after a period, when both of the parties understand each other and decide that it is better to call it off, but a divorce application in 3 months... I just cant understand.
These new age marriages are just another reflection of the fact that we are yet to appreciate the difference between "Modernization" and "Westernization".
