Dear Prashanth:

I hope you aim at caring a bit less about what other people think about you. Many of them make the wrong choices for themselves, many don’t know what to do in their own lives. Better not look up to them as if they are authority over what you should do, when you should have done what and whether it is too late for you to do what, now.

It has not served you well so far, to care so much about what others think.

You feel very strongly about meeting and marrying a woman with no relationship past and you wrote that women who do not have such a past are those waiting for arranged marriages. And that you are not interested in arranged marriages.

Isn’t it though a possibility for a man to be arranged to be married with a woman he genuinely likes? I wonder if you can have your parents arrange for you to meet a woman who has no relationship past, and then, if the two of you like each other, then proceed toward a marriage.

anita