1926th BLOG POST
14th
Book of 2021
Since
Coronavirus pandemic has begun, specifically, in India, the major concern for
few people apart from surviving this disease has been managing the wedding
ceremonies. Government came up with the guidelines that marriage can’t happen
with more than 50 guests. Now, considering that a family has 2 parent members
and 2 siblings, the invitees from each party could only be 21 members. Counting
2-3 photographers, 2 priests and other important relatives, you just can’t
invite even all of your relatives and closest friends. I have seen many people
getting married in my acquaintances during this lockdown period comprising of
last one year and I still see many marriages happening in my circle. This book
that I am going to talk about; “Marriage in the time of Corona” written by
Arbind Bhatia discusses one such marriage that takes place during lockdown.
This
is a short book of less than 100 pages so you can easily complete it within a
sitting or so. The writing style is little advanced so may be the beginners
will have to put more concentration than others but people into reading would
be able to grasp the story at the fullest. The book talks about the full cycle
that takes place in an Indian marriage circle – right from the moment of
proposal till the honeymoon. Occasionally, author keeps on discussing the
challenges that keeps interrupting the families and their preparations time to
time. This is the purpose with which the book has been written.
There
are seven chapters where each one of them talks about a ceremony related to the
Indian marriage which involves inter-religion match and hundreds of legal and
document issues that comes with it. You can relate with few characters as one
can trace them somewhere in their respective family too. This is basically a
preview of the book hence I won’t be talking about the drawbacks and other
factors. I would like you to read it yourself and let me know what you think of
this book which talks of pain of every Indian family who were and are planning
marriage during the lockdown phase.
Thanks.
WRITING BUDDHA
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