Programme on India TV to empower love marriages

India TV on the 18th of October, 2006 aired a long midnight show which discussed the problems of the couples who enter into love marriages without the consent of their parents/ family.
It also discussed the merits of love marriage vs. the traditional arranged marriages which are still strong in the Indian society. It took up cudgels against parents and family members who oppose the marriage of their daughters to men from other communities --- sometimes reacting violently.
Although, it sounds like a just cause at first glance, especially from a limited western/ heterosexual point of view, however, when you really study the whole matter in depth, this is just strengthening the forces of heterosexualisation. It is saying that marriage is not a community institution meant to strengthen and continue the community but instead it’s a heterosexual institution meant to honour and accommodate sexual bonds between men and women. It will not take long to take it from here and force it upon the youth, especially men, by making ‘heterosexuality’ the basic measure of manhood a la the west.