SAME SEX MARRIAGE IN INDIA
M arriage is a legal sanctioned union, usually between a man and a women that is regulated by laws, rules, customs, belief, and the duties that been given to the partners and accords status to their offspring. The universality of marriage within different societies and culture is attributed to the many basic social and personal functions. It provides structures, such as sexual gratitude and regulation, division of labour between the sexes, economic production, consumption and satisfaction of personal needs for affection, status and companionship. In India marriage is only about the growth of the generation, and also a licence to the loved couples to be together. Until the late 20 th century, marriage was rarely a matter of free choice. In societies with arrange marriages, the almost universal custom is that someone acts as an intermediary, or matchmaker. Some form of dowry or bride wealth is almost always exchanged in societies that favour arranged marriage. ...