I dont know why even so called mature writers make this mistake of treating caste and religion in the same vein. There is a huge difference between marrying out side caste and marrying out side religion. For god sake! when a Hindu boy/girl marries either a christian girl/boy or a Muslim, the main difference would be both will be worshiping different gods. Each will have to learn to celebrate other's festivals. Imagine Hindu visiting a Mazjid. It appears to me that way too much weightage is being given for veg/non-veg preference. In many Hindu House holds, though the caste people may be predominently non-veg. But some of its members may be veg. It happened in my own sister-in-law's case. She was eating non-veg in her Ma's house. But gave up meat upon her marriage. (arranged marriage within the caste) becasue her husband's family did not consume meat. My colleague's wife does not eat/cook non-veg for him. (caste people eat non veg). It is not a major think. But if a Hindu girl married a Muslim house hold, she may be even asked to convert and the problem will start when she is forced forget her Lord Ganesha!. Inter caste marriages hardly pose any problem because the culture would be almost same.
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by sri ph on Apr 21, 2008 04:46 PM Permalink
Good thoughts sowmya... Our media should encourage inter cast marriage which is most effective and good for the society also, rather than highlighting (or mostly supporting) only inter religion marriages (where most of the cases a hindu girl and a muslim boy is involved)
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by Shyam on May 08, 2008 12:17 PM Permalink
You dumb head! Hindu girl marrying Muslim boy is not INTERCASTE it is INTER RELIGION.
RE:Cultural differences do matter.
by Simon Peter on Jul 15, 2008 01:19 PM Permalink
You are the real dumb head shyam. Read the post carefully before replying.
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by jagannath raju on Apr 27, 2009 04:41 PM Permalink
dear friend, we all know the future, inspite we go ignoring the systems & also which is going to effect out valuable life & living so may is the attraction of money towards commitment like say a girl always like to recive a valuable gift from his fiancy & thus into relationship, more over this causes them paid for their life when they enter their wedlock so we beleive within/outside caste is ok but outside religion is the worst affected victims we are seeing in our daily life better than worse need to think better before something ruins raju 9363020966
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by Faiyaz Shaikh on Apr 10, 2008 07:53 PM Permalink
I will like to share my personal experience with you i belong to a practising muslim family {SHAIKH}& my lady love for the last three years is shocking also a muslim but she is a {ANSARI} she belongs to UP & myself from mumbai.The conflict is that according to her father she should only marry a {ANSARI} boy & not a {SHAIKH} so i am still trying to convince her father from the bottom of heart that in our religion we dont have caste/state/language/sirnames as a factor which can put two loving hearts away from eachothers as far as both are muslims. May ALLAH give hidayat to everyone.
