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Ketan was 26, and his fiancée Siya is 20. That’s a 6-year-gap, and it was not a love marriage. It was an arranged-marriage setup.
Ketan was a director and chief marketing officer in his family-run real estate firm, and Siya’s family is in the dry fruits trade. Since, the familied had booked a palace in Jaipur for ₹17 crore for their wedding and arranged two private planes to fly guests in, they both come from rich families.
To me, this fits a familiar and ugly pattern: “Let’s get our kids married, spend lavishly, and set a benchmark for everyone else. BONUS: Huge dowry, gifts, and status.”
I’ve seen one such marriage in my own family, where the boy was 21, and the girl was underage. The boy’s mother emotionally blackmailed him into marriage just because she couldn’t say NO to a rich family’s proposal and the ‘Lakshmi’ the girl would bring along.
They married, with heavy security forces covering the venue, in case someone tipped off the police.
Ketan's father has said that if Siya didn't want the marriage, she could have simply refused, and they'd have called it off. Maybe, though I doubt that!
I suspect, even in Ketan-Siya case, expensive gifts, heavy budgets, and social status would have forced Ketan or Siya or both of them to agree for the marriage, even when they were not ready for it.
I read at least 20 such stories every day on Reddit, where parents push their children to marry whosoever they can. Sometimes it’s greed. Sometimes it’s social comparison. Sometimes, it’s the societal burden.
And that pressure is sometimes aggressive, sometimes emotional, which forces people into decisions in the heat of the moment.
Whatever the courts finally conclude, nothing can bring Ketan back.
But until parents stop chasing dowry, status, and their own ambitions through their children's weddings, I fear stories like this will keep repeating.
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