The marriage is said to be the most important event in anybody's life
which suddenly changes the course of life. Now there is a book on
marriage that will help you get an understanding of the things one
needs to keep in mind while getting married. Hitched, written
by Nandini Krishnan and an imprint of Vintage Books, brags to explore
in depth the considerations marriage should involve , and the issues
that can crop up at different stages of an arranged marriage. The
book is aimed at women whose life gets changed and who have to walk
into a new family. A cross-section of women—those who married
young, married late, married the first man their parents parked
before them, or married out of caste in an arranged setup—open up
about experiences ranging from the frightening to the hilarious and
the awe-inspiring.
Nandini
Krishnan is a journalist, playwright and humorist based in Chennai,
which she still calls “Madras”. Her chief qualification for
writing this book is that, for as long as she can remember, her
mother has been taking her to weddings when she wasn't in the mood to
cook. Nandini's chief motive for writing this book is the idea of
being able to tell relatives who ask if she's thought about marriage.
Her
idea of an arranged marriage derived mainly from her family’s
frantic—and failed— attempts to set her up with a ‘suitable
prospect’ every time she was between boyfriends. That idea changed
in the process of speaking to interviewees for this book.
‘Witty,
piercing, veracious, and inquisitive, Hitched
succeeds
in being entertaining, educating and enlightening, all at once’
says Ashwin Sanghi about her book.
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