PATNA: Love's in the air. Or, so it seems if one goes by the number of love marriages in the city which has been constantly rising.
As against 344 lovebirds tying the knot in the city's marriage registrar office in 2007, 429 couples signed papers, vowing to grow up under one roof as man and wife in 2008. The number went northwards at 463 the next year. Till October this year, as many as 433 couples had registered their marriages while another 100 have applied for the same and would be exchanging wedding vows by the time the curtains draw on the year 2010.
Earlier this week, TOI visited the registrar's office and spotted a couple busy completing the formalities for the D-Day. "We have known each other for long. We have explored good and bad things about each other. There exists a greater degree of comfort level between us and only after being sure about this did we decide to spend life together," said the 20-plus girl in love with her neighbour, three years older.
Marriage officer A K Jha said the trend is fast catching up in Patna. "Today's youths look towards the west for their outlook on life. Till five years ago, love marriages were not the trend, but exceptions here," he said as he rummaged through previous records to substantiate his remark.
Registrar office sources told TOI it is rarely that couples visiting the marriage office are accompanied by parents. Most of them bring friends or distant relatives to depose as witnesses to their wedding.
Love, they say, has no religion. Needless to say, the love marriages being registered at the Patna marriage registrar's office include not only inter-caste but also inter-faith marriages. In November, Mohd Sanaullah Khan wedded Shweta Prasad. "They became man and wife under Bihar Special Marriage (amendment) Rules 2008," an official said and recalled family members, including parents, from neither side appeared in the registrar's office to become witnesses to their wedding.
Rajendra Singh (Sikh) and Alankrita, Vishwakarma Prasad and Roseline Anthony (Christian) and Inshad Alam and Madhu Kumari also got their marriage registered at the Patna registrar's office.
Noted sociologist Hetukar Jha describes the generation opting for love marriages as "Me-First generation". "They are pleasure-driven people who take decisions on the basis of current circumstances, howsoever fickle these circumstances may be," he said and reiterated when interests of self become more important than those of others, love marriages happen.
As against 344 lovebirds tying the knot in the city's marriage registrar office in 2007, 429 couples signed papers, vowing to grow up under one roof as man and wife in 2008. The number went northwards at 463 the next year. Till October this year, as many as 433 couples had registered their marriages while another 100 have applied for the same and would be exchanging wedding vows by the time the curtains draw on the year 2010.
Earlier this week, TOI visited the registrar's office and spotted a couple busy completing the formalities for the D-Day. "We have known each other for long. We have explored good and bad things about each other. There exists a greater degree of comfort level between us and only after being sure about this did we decide to spend life together," said the 20-plus girl in love with her neighbour, three years older.
Marriage officer A K Jha said the trend is fast catching up in Patna. "Today's youths look towards the west for their outlook on life. Till five years ago, love marriages were not the trend, but exceptions here," he said as he rummaged through previous records to substantiate his remark.
Registrar office sources told TOI it is rarely that couples visiting the marriage office are accompanied by parents. Most of them bring friends or distant relatives to depose as witnesses to their wedding.
Love, they say, has no religion. Needless to say, the love marriages being registered at the Patna marriage registrar's office include not only inter-caste but also inter-faith marriages. In November, Mohd Sanaullah Khan wedded Shweta Prasad. "They became man and wife under Bihar Special Marriage (amendment) Rules 2008," an official said and recalled family members, including parents, from neither side appeared in the registrar's office to become witnesses to their wedding.
Rajendra Singh (Sikh) and Alankrita, Vishwakarma Prasad and Roseline Anthony (Christian) and Inshad Alam and Madhu Kumari also got their marriage registered at the Patna registrar's office.
Noted sociologist Hetukar Jha describes the generation opting for love marriages as "Me-First generation". "They are pleasure-driven people who take decisions on the basis of current circumstances, howsoever fickle these circumstances may be," he said and reiterated when interests of self become more important than those of others, love marriages happen.
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