Both Jhumpa Lahiri's “Going Ashore” and Anita Jain's “Is Arranged Marriage Really Any Worse than Craigslist?” discuss the prospects of arranged marriage and the processes involved in it, Lahiri suggests that arranged marriage is the answer to an unstable life, Jain's story suggests that arranged marriage and it's processes is just as unstable as a typical love marriage. In “Going Ashore”, the character, Hema, views arranged marriage as an answer to her unfortunate history of past relationships and
Using Lopamudra, women today can see how strong a women in a Vedic family could be and how society needed stronger women in a time when women were suppressed by a lack of property and were held to a high standard of honor. The hymn is found is found in the first Appendix of the RigVeda and includes Lopamudra, Agastya, and a poet who wrote it all down. Lopamudra: For many autumns I have toiled, night and day, and each dawn has brought old age closer, age that distorts the glory of bodies. Virile