This refers to the article “Why this entrance exam for us?” (Open Page, Feb. 4). The mindset of parents of prospective brides should change. Even today, parents consider their daughters a liability and burden. Although women excel in all fields like men, marriage assumes the form of a transaction. The duty of girls' parents is to provide them good education, enable them to become financially independent and lead a life of self-respect and dignity. They should not be made to believe that marriage is the ultimate aim in life.
Soumya Suresh,
Puducherry
Parents consider it a duty to find a suitable partner for their sons and daughters. We wish our children a wonderful married life. It is not as if failed marriages affect only the young. Parents, too, suffer in silence. Arranged marriages are any day more successful than marriages planned by the youngsters themselves.
Air Commodore
V.V. Nair (retd.),
Manipal
