24x7 marriage

Dr Vijay Nagaswami as a columnist in the Hindu I am familiar with. I find his writings on marriage very refreshing and contemporary. Devoid of any lingo or pontification he comes to the point and handles the issue of marriage in today's Indian society with a lot of perspective and frankness. His columns are also eminently readable.

I was eagerly looking out for his book on the subject of 24x7 marriage in the bookshops as soon as it was published . It was last week that I sighted the book at Odyssey book store and grabbed it and I have been reading it chapter by chapter. I strongly recommend this book in every household after the dictionary, tinkle digest and steven covey.
That the author is a psychiatrist and a specialist in handling marriage issues makes the book a good chronicle of his case studies. It is totally realistic and he also finds prescriptions(yes he is a doctor you see) for some of the issues. He rightly says that marriage is not a definite slot in the time scale of today's youth. They dont want to answer 'why not' but want to ask 'why' to the idea of marriage. Women taking up careers seriously are focussed on their careers and they also have enough freedom and excitement that men have always had. They also have enough opportunity to have friends at work. Women have changed big time but the men are pretty much in the same cultural more. A classic case of tussle.Women are handling this issue by postponing marriage till they find a reason for getting married.
The author handles these issues very well and gives perspective on the common but new issues in today's marriage.

This book is a good gift to anybody above 18 years; all you have to do is to find some excuse ...