Love marriage and arranged marriage sit at a hinge point in the discursive traditions in India. Neither one of them is morally right or wrong, but families are choosing what is right for them based on the context of their situation. The next generation is having the chance to change their tradition within the bounds of the rules that have already been established.
Shreya does a great analysis of Love Marriage which is still a taboo in India. The great B. R. Ambedkar said that the ways to break the Caste system in Indian society are through inter-marriage and inter-dining. The movie Santosh Subramaniam addresses this directly and Shreya makes us dream of the possibility of that reality!
Love this article. I loved the inclusion of an Indian movie to provide more depth of context to Shreya’s thesis, and how at the end, she tied it all together to Indian-Americans and its praxis.
Shreya does a great analysis of Love Marriage which is still a taboo in India. The great B. R. Ambedkar said that the ways to break the Caste system in Indian society are through inter-marriage and inter-dining. The movie Santosh Subramaniam addresses this directly and Shreya makes us dream of the possibility of that reality!
Love this article. I loved the inclusion of an Indian movie to provide more depth of context to Shreya’s thesis, and how at the end, she tied it all together to Indian-Americans and its praxis.