Regressive tracks. - Page 6

There is no real correlation between knowing a groom and the safety or happiness of the bride.

Let us take the case of phooli, gehna initially, etc.

At times one has to operate on a sixth sense.

@bold - I agree, and most of the people going for arranged marriage know this already, still the girl's parents (and even boy's parents) take care of collecting information relating to the boy and his family (girl and her family for boy's parents). What Gulli's grandparents done seems almost impossible in real life. Moreover, they did not felt guilty of hiding the truth - and BH people and Anandi-Shiv readily condoned their mistake, as if they had the right to hide the truth and groom's family had any obligation to marry Gulli.

Yes he is from a foreign country, but what more could gullis illiterate and poor grandparents do? They can't go to America to verify his background nor can they hire a private investigator to track him.

They also know that now with this additional setback of wedding party walking out on top of gullis history and her rape victim status, they will not be able to find a good man to marry her easily.

There is nothing regressive about it.

Gulli had to agree, she was roaming with this man just two days before her marriage and was falling in love, giving those sad looks with all the people around (but nobody except the boy could see all this).

May be for some people - it is like mia bibi raaji then it is progressive. For me, it was like they wanted to show that Gulli/her grandparents/BH people/Shiv and Anandi everybody thought that Gulli has to be married immediately - this thinking looks regressive to me.