Just a little incensed over a few people who call arranged marriage as ' arranged prostitution'..
The very fault in their statement is just that they consider marriage only as a license for sex, nothing else..These morons got to get a life and think better..I am not faulting most ppl but atleast some of the present generation have wrong ideas of what's cool and what's not !
If there's some1 here who;s missed out this sentence from dhyaana :

"IF SOMEONE DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO ANSWER THE QUESTIONS FROM INQUISITIVE FORIEGNERS, HE IMMEDIATELY SAYS THAT HE DOESN'T BELEIVE IN THESE THINGS. It may be true that some of them have come by tradition and may not have a significant meaning, but that does deprive everything else of their meanings. The point of the whole paragraph is, this is a simple indicator of how the people these days are more attracted to 'modernism' without even attempting to learn their root culture properly."

Puts what i think in perspective..Arranged marriage is just one instance of this.
I seriously believe pride in Indianism is somewhat missing in this generation..And hey, by pride, i dont mean these external shows of patriotic fervour like hoisting flags on independence day..its more inherent.

The problem lies in the fact that a majority of us are influenced by some ppl who feel what's cool and what's not. For instance, when in school, it was 'cool' to speak in Hindi (even among tamil guys!) while talking in tamil was just considered run-of the mill..I mean, gimme a break..The fad is intially created and is passed on generation thru generation..We need to be independent thinkers and its about time.

Ravi