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Sneha was 25 years old. Her parents, Ram and Kaveri had brought up their only child giving her full freedom to chase her dreams and choose the career of her dreams. She was a journalist with a leading television channel. After doing her post-graduation in Arts, she had taken a post-graduate diploma in journalism before she landed in her present job, in which she had been working for the last 2 years.
Ram was an entrepreneur and had his own restaurant business. Kaveri was a home maker. Ram and Kaveri had given Sneha a year to choose her life-partner. “Aise pyar kiya nahin jaata maa, pyaar tho ho jaatha hain” she told her Mom. They had an agreement that the parents would find a groom for Sneha at the end of one year if she did not find someone with whom she wants to share the rest of her life. Now, though Sneha had this open relationship with her parents, a couple of bitter incidents in her life made her think that men are not reliable. Also, she was of the opinion that once you get married you become selfish, think only about your family first. So her opinion was that marriage is a compromise that makes you a lesser person. She had a close friend from college who had totally changed from the time he met his girlfriend. He had stopped being in touch with Sneha, though she was the one to whom he...
Sneha was 25 years old. Her parents, Ram and Kaveri had brought up their only child giving her full freedom to chase her dreams and choose the career of her dreams. She was a journalist with a leading television channel. After doing her post-graduation in Arts, she had taken a post-graduate diploma in journalism before she landed in her present job, in which she had been working for the last 2 years.
Ram was an entrepreneur and had his own restaurant business. Kaveri was a home maker. Ram and Kaveri had given Sneha a year to choose her life-partner. “Aise pyar kiya nahin jaata maa, pyaar tho ho jaatha hain” she told her Mom. They had an agreement that the parents would find a groom for Sneha at the end of one year if she did not find someone with whom she wants to share the rest of her life. Now, though Sneha had this open relationship with her parents, a couple of bitter incidents in her life made her think that men are not reliable. Also, she was of the opinion that once you get married you become selfish, think only about your family first. So her opinion was that marriage is a compromise that makes you a lesser person. She had a close friend from college who had totally changed from the time he met his girlfriend. He had stopped being in touch with Sneha, though she was the one to whom he...
