you respect your parents, it is not a system you rebel against or fight against when you don’t conform, it is your parents you kick in the teeth. In an e-mail interview, Amulya Malladi, author of The Mango Season was candid and rather pragmatic about the process as she has seen and experienced it herself: “I think it is quite common. This seems to be equally important between the sexes -Vikram Seth’s tome, A Suitable Boy devoted 1,000 plus pages to the suitability of various arrangements! Because, the idea if not the eventuality of arranged marriage is so much a part of the fabric of Indian (and the Diaspora) life and culture, many individuals acquiesce to parents’ wishes and give the “look see” process a try. Interestingly, while different results are often represented in fiction in regards to arranged marriage, there is a constant: nearly all parents, no matter what the eventual outcome, hope to be able to “arrange” a suitable marriage partner. of late, writers have seemed to key in on one aspect of Indian life that alternately baffles, amazes and appalls: arranged marriage. Judging from the subject matter of more than a few South Asian novels published in the U.S.
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