It wasn't long ago when love marriages faced a similar wrath and were considered a taboo. Finding love on your own and choosing to settle with him/her meant being disrespectful towards your parents and family. However, there's a recent shift towards this trend and while love marriages are gaining popularity, arranged marriages are increasingly looked down upon. No wonder when Bollywood actor Shahid Kapoor decided in favor of an arranged marriage, everyone started speculating the reason behind his move. More than anything else, people questioned the 'need' for an arranged marriage and his 'failure' to find love on his own.

Not only this, people who opt for arranged marriages are often viewed as 'non-achievers' with 'lack of options' and such marriages as 'forced marriages'. However, if we examine arranged marriages in the context of urban India, there's hardly any scope of calling them coerced. These days, parents only act as intermediaries and scour their social networks for the potential match for their adult children, in other words, parents facilitate a sort of dating platform, where two individuals meet, and then try to weigh the pros and cons of marrying each other.

Disparagers may question the success rate of such marriages, but here Psychology Today comes up with a counter, "A study in Jaipur, India a few decades ago found that people in love marriages were more in love for the first five years, while those in arranged marriages were more in love for the next 30 years." This makes it hard to say that arranged marriages are not bestowed with love and may end up in a divorce.

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