Even nowadays, most young Indians regard it as advantageous that they do not need seek a partner on their own. Marriages arranged by the families are quite welcomed and no essential change is emerging at the horizon. Premarital loves exist but there is a tendency to keep them secret even if some of them lead to the marriage. In the countryside, and intercaste love affair is sometimes punished by a “honor killing,” “murder in the name of family honor” of the girl or of both A new attitude towards “marriage on one’s own” seems to be developing in Bangalore, where many young people come to join the IT industry and the relations of the respective couples are based on shared interests. There is not much talking of love.Their families, staying far away, seem to be rather more tolerant to this type of marriage.
Nirmal Varmā (1929-2005) lived in Prague between 1959 and 1968. The atmosphere of Old Prague became one of the favorite motifs of his writings. He witnesses the Prague Spring of 1968, the Soviet invasion on August 21, 1968 and its aftermath in 1969, all of which influenced his political views in a decisive way.