Bengaluru: History repeats, they keep saying. In the late 70s and 80s of the last century, there was a common practice to ask for agricultural land holdings of any would-be bridegroom in any marriage alliance. By the turn of the century, the issue was backseated for nearly the next forty years. However, now the same old trend of asking for agricultural land holdings has cropped up, particularly in these last three years, exclaims Krishna V Itnal, retired AO, LIC and a Septuagenarian Gandhian settled in Pune... ...Trying in vain for alliance: He gives startling examples to drive home his analysis: " I know Raju Honwad, a native of Vijayapura in Karnataka residing now in Pune. Now he is trying for an alliance with his third son who is a diploma holder with a salary of Rs 38000/-... ...Every week to Karnataka: Every weekend he is in Karnataka in search of a girl. Though the family possesses two-bedroom flats in two numbers in Pune, he is desperate to search for a suitable girl for...
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