intercast love marriage in India

Inter-caste love marriage is a contentious issue that is given much thought when two people consider getting married. In India, marriage is steeped in tradition and rituals, and it is greatly dependent on caste. An age-old societal rule mandates that the bride and groom must be from the same caste. This rule was created by our ancestors, and it is still strictly followed by our elders. It was enacted for a reason - during ancient times, people believed in bloodlines and their purity. Therefore, people were forced to get married within their own caste.

However, it is also true that during ancient times, there were only four castes that were dwelling in India. Today, India is an amalgamation of more than 4000 castes. Sadly, disagreement for marriage in another caste is considered disrespectful to God. But love is not a usual thing that anybody can understand. Only the person who is truly in love and has fallen for someone with all their heart can understand the power of this emotion.

Although love is a beautiful emotion that adorns people's lives with various colors and brings happiness, during inter-caste marriage, it has to face religious barriers. Along with that, this beautiful emotion is facing the boundaries of social groups that create a complex wall of customs and traditions in the path of love marriage. For me, love is beyond all these social circumstances, and it should be allowed to fly freely by breaking all these trivial traditions.

Parents who claim to be living in the 21st century and claim to be open-minded are actually not if they still cling to outdated caste-based thinking.

And after overcoming all these barriers, if the boy and girl get married, there are many problems that the girl alone has to face after her marriage. For example, if the boy's family hates the girl, then they will never accept her into their family. The story becomes even worse if the couple gets divorced, only because the boy cannot convince his parents.

Now think about the situation of that girl. Her parents will not accept her, and the boy has already left her. Now the real question is, what is her caste? In which samaj does she belong? The bitter truth is that she has no caste or samaj at all.

What has she done to deserve this? And yet we believe that we are living in a modern era. Yes, we are living in a modern era, but our samaj is still living in an ancient era.

If different gods of different societies do not want us to marry in a different caste, then why did they give us the freedom to fall in love with someone from another caste?

Think on it. Just living in a modern era does not make us modern.