My NaNoNovel

Employment as a correspondent, carried out with enthusiasm, will help us to find an early recognition in professional life. Presuming such recognition will be a reality in five years in any other profession; we can easily say it’ll be on our way within a year, if we serve for the media.

An individual’s image in the media could even help him or her to play with a variety of choices, when it comes to lifetime decisions like marrying.

No wonder if press reporters, during the course of their assignments, come across marriage proposals from architects, doctors and other professionals. They may reject those, but more proposals continue to be there non-stop, till they marry.

In comparison, let us look at laymen who try to marry-off their children (who could be doctors, advocates, businessmen and so on), by registering their names in matrimony websites:

They shell down a fortune for such registration, presuming that they will be able to identify the best match for their son or daughter. What happens after registering according to the latest trend, for example as a vegetarian family interested in alliance with another vegetarian family?

They will be allowed to have 30 phone numbers to start their communication. Going through those, the average rejection will be: For no reason from ten numbers, for horoscope not matching ten numbers and for the sub-caste not matching the remaining ten numbers!

When they say nothing clicked and request for more phone numbers, the matrimony site suggest them in turn to pay more money and become a premium member! When the problem of ‘sub-caste not matching’ is cited, they will be demanded to register in a separate sub-caste website, by again paying a few thousand rupees more!!!

There could be occasions, people pretending to be interested in alliance land up for lunch or dinner, claiming that a personal visit will help the two families to know each other better! The guests of course refrain to say ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to the alliance, either on the spot or after they go back to their home!

Other than the above, registrants receive daily list of ten matching profiles, who hardly respond when contacted. Daily list mailing service stops after a short period of time for want of renewal. Renewal results in nothing other than repetition of the above!

Cycle of the said phenomenon will be in force till you’re fed up and say, ‘Sorry friend, no more renewals!’, though the matrimony websites never ever stop pestering, to get your registration renewed.

Once the above lines are convinced, I think there will be a keenness to know how main character of my NaNoNovel 'Whom to marry?', correspondent of a weekly magazine, weighed and rejected nine top class proposals she came across in her career, and remained in demand even after that.

This novel is likely to relate fifty percent of its content towards the Art of Living, while the remainder is expected to be shared by thirty and twenty percent respectively by journalism and matrimony. 

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