For years, \u2018arranged\u2019 marriages in our country have been..erm..an \u2018arranged\u2019 business deal. A kind of tomfoolery where the compatibility of two strangers is decided on the basis of a much-rehearsed walk of the prospective bride with a chai-tray and samosas, some irrelevant questions thrown to and fro and a bunch of over-enthusiastic elders who are keen to fix the \u2018match.\u2019<\/p>\n
What gets lost in this \u2018given\u2019 process of fixing these \u2018arranged\u2019 matches is a space for the prospective bride and groom to enter the unison from a place of understanding- a place where there are no set rules, no defined roles and there is a provision for open communication. If only that were allowed, we\u2019d probably see a paradigm shift in the way marriages seem to (still) stick to defined gender roles and perceptions.<\/p>\n
And BIBA seems to have hit home with just the starting point we need for this much-needed change. In the new BIBA ad on arranged marriage, they seem to have brought a refreshing twist to what starts out as the same old humdrum of the \u2018arranged\u2019 drill that goes on while fixing an arranged marriage. The surprise?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
For years, \u2018arranged\u2019 marriages in our country have been..erm..an \u2018arranged\u2019 business deal. A kind of tomfoolery where the compatibility of two strangers is decided on the basis of a much-rehearsed walk of the prospective bride with a chai-tray and samosas, some irrelevant questions thrown to and fro and a bunch of over-enthusiastic elders who are keen to fix the \u2018match.\u2019 What gets lost in this \u2018given\u2019 process of fixing these \u2018arranged\u2019 matches is a space for the prospective bride and groom to enter the unison from a place of understanding- a place where there are no set rules, no defined <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[18,9,13,14],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marriage","tag-gender","tag-love","tag-marriage","tag-relationships","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dategd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dategd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dategd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dategd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dategd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dategd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dategd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dategd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dategd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dategd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}