Arranged Marriage

Arranged Marriage

PART 1

Arranged marriages existed many parts of the world and is very dominant in India. Now a days it is slowly disappearing but it won’t go away so easily. Meet the girl or Pennu Kaanal is the main process of arranged marriage, some people will enjoy this and some won’t. I am narrating a story which happened  somewhere in northern Kerala.

The story is about a Malayalee business man in the Middle East who decided to marry in his early thirties. He approached a marriage consultant or broker in Kerala and requested to look for a highly educated girl. He is less care about beauty or family financial background but education is critical for him. The broker started his hunting and notified his client that it is quite difficult to find someone; most of the girls are looking for someone below twenty eight years of age. After months of hunting, the broker found a girl who is in early thirties, also teaching in a college somewhere in Trichur district. The girl spent most of her twenties in universities and completed her Doctorate in science.

The business man asked his broker whether he can meet the girl in private without visiting her family. The broker got the response from the girl that she is not willing to meet him private and asked him to contact her father. Finally the business man visited the girl’s family, had to answer all the questions of girl’s father. It appears to be him as corporate job interview. At the end of the process, he met the girl and had a thirty minutes conversation. The girl gave her mobile number to him for communication purpose. The business man was interested in her but was not sure whether he would marry her not. Couple of days later, he sent text message to the girl “ I  need to talk to you private one more time, this time I will accompany with my best friend, I can arrange the meeting in a restaurant”. The girl refused the private meeting and advised him to contact her father. The broker mediated the conversation with the girl’s father; he agreed another meeting in his house. The business man went with his best friend for the second meeting which is quite unusual. Next day the business man met his friend and asked his second opinion. The friend replied “the girl and her family look good to me but I have a concern which I am not sure which is  important to you?”

To be continued