Meanwhile, Amma has a blog entry on the History of Institution of Marriage in India cleverly put in the words of patriarch Bhishma.
My father used to describe the institution of marriage among some tribals that he had seen. If you were with somebody, that would be your spouse! In many ways I feel that's what the present-day Western culture has come to!
In his masterpiece "Parva", author Bhyrappa has created a world where acceptance as a wife or husband is a marriage, most probably to explain how Krishna could have 16,000 wives. Personally, I am most attracted to this definition of marriage, because after all marriage is a man-made institution, and today it is just a piece of paper that is subject to ridicule, mockery, and toying.
