Friday, June 17, 2011

In Meerut, a Love Story Worthy of Shakespeare

Love story No. 1: A young woman refuses to marry the man her father has chosen—even though he threatens her life for disobeying him. She makes a plan to run away with the young man she wants to marry to wed secretly in another town. Her female friend informs the young man whom the father had approved of, and the jilted chap follows the couple, accompanied by the friend. Along the way, these two fall in love and get married in a double wedding with the first couple.

Associated Press
For a country that adores weddings, India doesn't always make it easy for young romantics.

Love story No. 2: A young man is betrothed to a young woman who elopes with her lover just before the wedding. Her family offers the jilted groom the runaway bride's younger sister instead. But immediately after the nuptials, the substitute bride reveals she has already wed to someone else in secret, and asks the groom to accept her as a sister. He agrees to help reunite her with her secret husband against the wishes of her parents.

Love story No. 3: A young man falls in love with a young woman. But the father is known to have said this daughter won't marry before her older, more difficult sister. So a friend of the young man, impressed by the family's wealth, offers to marry the older sister. Their wedding takes place and the older sister appears to fall in love with her husband after the marriage. The father comes aro [...]



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