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Rama Lakshmi is Editor, Opinion and Ground Reports, at ThePrint.
She did her graduate program in museum studies and African American civil rights movement from University of Missouri, St Louis.
She was the India correspondent for The Washington Post for 27 years, and won the American Society of News Editors Award in 2005 for her coverage of the tsunami disaster.
She can be reached at Rama.Lakshmi@theprint.in
The headline and article seems to imply that the problem is peoples faith in arranged marriages. Nice way to completely ignore the fact that some people are religious fundamentalists. Well done ‘The Print’. You’re now on par with other shitty media houses like The Quint and the Wire.
Me being a Christian from Mumbai have witnessed many of my friends married to Hindu and Muslim and converted to their religion. Remember Actress Genelia D’souza?
Brother just come out of your mindset.
One needs to be godo at heart … whe none justifies Wajibul Qatl….. one wonders how come one allows other religions into their lives..
I;m a tam brahmin, A cousin has married a mexican Romal catholic christian…. she has nto converted and he respects hindu gods.. he rebuilt the native murugan temple and he has immense love and regard for this temple. HE has spent over 10 Lakhs to rebuild this Gopuram of 1000 years old temple…. however, my cousin insisted on raising the kid as an RC and they named the child a sanskrit and Chrirtian name….
Such children are brought up in both cultures and LEARN to respect all religions……
All religions profess universal brotherhood and peaceful coexistence. Any differentiation based on caste, creed, colour, language, region or religion is simply irreligious.
Inter faith marriages end up giving the upper hand to Muslims !!! Have you ever seen a marriage where a Christian or Muslim has given up her/his own religion ?
They accept girls of other religion but never accept a boy ! Why ? Patriarchy !!! Patrilineal traditions and above all…. Quran and Bible are supreme ….. THE faith can’t be tarnished ???
In USA my Christians ,Jew Friends Sincerely keep distance from tieing knots with Muslims.I myself a proud Hindu not only by bury but also by choice will never ever let it happened with my family and friends.Marrying a Muslim is a blunder.Uncertanity ,fanatical mindset ,phd in cruelty,PhD in inhumanity as such big no,no.Sorry better to suicide than marrying a trashy Muslim?.
One data point and she comes to a conclusion?
And she should quote some studies from other US universities that xplain why more than 50% of the US population have children out of wedlock, and there is a huge % of the US population that are single families.
As far as religious inter mingling goes I don’t believe it is ever going to work. Perhaps she can quote some data on successful inter religious marriages.
Finally caste. There are laws to enforce that there is no caste discrimination which successive governments have failed to enforce.
Useless article. I want 3 mins of my life back.
Inter-faith marriages are OK. But, pray tell me, why is that they all end up as Christians and Muslims and not Hindus after the marriage? Clearly, the dice is loaded, yes?