Two States or Two Families ??????????????
Recently I watched the movie Two States and it stirred me enough to write this blog as I have been thinking about this topic for quite some time. I think this movie was a hit since it was a story that has been told and re-told umpteen number of times, so known to all of us. Two States has happened to most of us, all of us have those few people in our life to whom this happened. Luckily though, as in the case of two states, many are still leading a happily married life. What prompted me to write this post was the fact that in India, it is not really Two States, but Two Families………What I mean to say is that even though you go in for an arranged marriage and marry someone whom your parents chose, from the same caste, community even then this story happens, only slightly twisted. Two States talked about how the couple fell in love and fought to bridge the North-South divide and bring the two families together so they could get married. In the case of most other arranged marriages the