The regressive role that religion, caste, creed and faith often play when it comes to marriages and relationships:
“The Caste System cannot be said to have grown as a means of maintaining purity of blood. As a matter of fact, Caste system came into being long after the different races of India had commingled in blood and culture…What racial affinity is there between the Brahmin of Punjab and the Brahmin of Madras?...What racial difference is there between the Brahmin of Madras and the Pariah of Madras?...I am convinced that the real remedy is inter-marriage. Fusion of blood can alone create the feeling of being kith and kin and unless this feeling of kinship, of being kindred, becomes paramount the separatist feeling – the feeling of being aliens – created by Caste will not vanish…” - B.R. Ambedkar Let’s begin by considering the definition of marriage. A marriage is a social event and it is also a religious occasion. It is an auspicious ceremony – a ceremony that is believed to legalise the sacred bond that two consenting partners (who m...