Marriage is a universal social institution which has been established by human society to control and regulate one man’s sexual life. Marriage has been sanctioned by customed laws such as which include guidelines for: 

• Sexual Behaviour
• Division of Labour
• Duties
• Privileges

According to the Hindu Texts the 3 aims of marriages:

• Dharma-Duty
• Praja-Progeny
• Rati-Sexual Pleasure

Forms of Marriages:

• Polygyny: A single man marries more than one woman
• Polyandry: A single woman married to more than one man
• Monogamy: One man marries one woman
• Group marriages: Marriages of two or more women with two or more men

Marriage system has been observing radical changes in the system over the time of independence. Though basic religious belief associated with marriage has not been crumbled. Practices, customs and forms have been witnessing changes, in fact many changes.

Foremost change which is being found is the change in the form of marriages. Earlier, polygamy used to be a very practiced form of marriage taking place. But today, polygamy is not found anymore, only monogamy is being persistently practiced over the years.

In the traditional society primary objective of marriage was the duty of each individual to carry forward the family legacy, but today the objective has been shifted to the only aim of maintaining life-long companionship. Changes have been found in the process of mate selection, field of selection has become wider and inter-religious and inter-caste marriages have become common.

Parents have been playing a very active role in process of selection of life partners. Young men and women have been selecting their life partners lately and priority is given to their choice than their parents! In the process of selection, importance has been given to individual interests, considerations and not family considerations. There has been an increase in instances of love marriages. Child marriages have been prohibited, and the legalized age has been made. The legal age for boys to get married is 21 years, and a girl is 18 years. Pre-puberty marriages no longer exist.

Legislative provision for divorce and widow marriages has adversely affected the stability of marriages and undermined the importance of age-old values related to marriage. The concept of equality affected the stability of marriage ties.

Dowry associated with a marriage made marriages costly affairs and have set an example for an evil deed. Marriages used to settle on a consideration of dowry. Huge money has been spent on decorations, processions, videography, and music.

There has been an increase in the instances of divorce and desertion. Sanctity has been thereby not been affected and has not reduced to the level of civil contract in Indian Society.

A person can go into an anaphylactic shock from stepping outside their home in cold. Yes! Allergies are not only limited to spring or fall, but winter allergies are persistent too. Winter allergies are so severe that a person might fall to a death bed on an enormous increase in their allergies. It’s just the hives you feel, but they aren’t just the normal hives. It is an extremely rare autoimmune disease known as essential cold urticarial(ECU).

There are two forms of the disease:

• Primary Idiopathic Cold Urticaria
• Urticaria Idiopathic Cold (Familial or acquired)

Cool urticaria is an unending, receptive skin issue. It is likely the most widely recognized type of physical urticaria (hives). Significant manifestations may incorporate strange blushing of the skin (erythema), hives and tingling after introduction of the skin to cool temperatures.

There are two types of the turmoil: basic (gained) cool urticaria, and familial (innate) cold urticaria. The side effects of the obtained frame wind up evident in two to five minutes after appearance to the activating substance or circumstance, while it takes 24 to 48 hours for indications of familial chilly urticaria to show up. Additionally, side effects will in general last longer with the familial shape, ordinarily around 24 hours in spite of the fact that they may stay for up to 48 hours. With the obtained frame, side effects will in general keep going for one to two hours.

In cold urticaria, the skin has a strange response to cool. This may, for example, happen after exposition to cool climate or to swimming in icy water. The skin for the most part turns red, and creates welts and tingling. This might be joined by fever, migraine, tension, tiredness, and, now and again, notwithstanding blacking out. A few people may likewise have palpitations or wheezing.

Manifestations of familial cold urticaria may start to show up when 30 minutes after introduction to cool. They may hold on for up to 48 hours after introduction. The redness and tingling of the skin might be joined by fever, migraine, tiredness, torment in the joints (arthralgia), and the nearness of extreme white platelets (leucocytosis) in the blood.

Fundamental (procured) cool urticaria comprises, as indicated by a few clinicians, of a few sub-classifications, for example, essential gained cold urticaria, postponed cool urticaria, confined cold urticaria, reflex cool urticaria or optional cold urticaria, which are clarified as:

• Essential gained cool urticaria can happen five to 30 minutes after exposition to cold. The response may happen wide open to the harsh elements itself, however more frequently amid the rewarming stage. Tingling and blushing of the skin may grow first, trailed by a consuming sensation. Hives show up, typically enduring 30 minutes. The influenced individual may likewise encounter cerebral pain, palpitations, wheezing or blacking out.

• Postponed cool urticaria may seem a few hours after contact with the cold.

• Limited cool urticaria has been accounted for to happen after exposition to cold at the locales of past ragweed infusions for hypersensitivities or ladybug chomps.

• Reflex chilly urticaria is described by across the board appearance of welts happening in light of a drop in body temperature after restricted introduction to cool applications (e.g. an ice pack).

• Optional cool urticaria can happen regarding different blood issue related with viral contaminations, for example, mononucleosis.

One such individual who experiences this life threatening allergy is Arianna Kent. Kent, who lives in Alberta, Canada, is really oversensitive to the cold. Her sensitivity is severe to the point that she can go into anaphylactic stun just by venturing out into winter climate for a couple of minutes.

Kent was 14 years of age when she originally had a hypersensitive response. She was outside scooping snow when she all of a sudden broke out into hives and experienced issues relaxing. At first, she rejected it as a food allergy. In any case, following quite a while of responses and therapeutic testing, she was at long last determined to have basic cold urticaria (ECU). An extremely rare autoimmune disease, ECU is a chronic reactive skin condition that flares up when the body is exposed to cold temperatures.

Even after layering up, Kate, now 21, can only spend about five minutes outside before having a reaction—it can happen if she’s holding a chilled can of soda, for example, or even as she walks from her door to her car. Living in an area where temperatures can reach as low as -40 degrees Fahrenheit doesn’t do her any favours.

Kent said she used to need to go to the clinic around three times each month on account of serious responses. Changing her eating regimen and decreasing her admission of sustenance’s that contain histamine, a substance discharged in the body amid unfavourably weak responses, has brought down the quantity of healing facility trips she takes to about a few times per month.

There’s next to no data on ECU, and that absence of information can be difficult for Kent. Relatively few individuals comprehend her condition, which makes it difficult to carry on with her regular daily existence.

This is one of the rarest things which would come to somebody’s head. But yeah, this mode of existence persists. They are commonly known as “conjoined twins” and the biological terms to refer to them is “Dicephalic Parapagus Twins”.

These kinds of twins have a high symmetry for existence which gives an appearance of having a single body without any marked variations from the normal proportions. But each twin is known to have a separate heart, stomach, spine, pair of lungs, and a spinal cord.

As far as the body controls are associated, each twin controls his or her side of the body. As they have only two legs and two arms in total, each twin controls one leg and one arm.

Various activities such as eating and writing can be done separately by them, but activities such as swimming, driving, etc need high level of coordination amongst themselves.

Though these twins share the same body, they have different immune systems. So if one twin has fallen extremely sick, the other one can remain in a good of health.

This existence is so rare that only 4 sets of conjoined twins exist today who share an undivided torso and two legs and have survived into the adulthood. One such set of twins are Abby and Brittany Hensel.

The story of Abby and Brittany Hensel

Abby and Brittany were born in the Carver Country, Minnesota, USA. They are aged 28 years and have pursued their education from Mayer Lutheran High School and Bethel University. They went to school like other normal kids and enjoyed reading and writing. They could perform the tasks of reading and write individually. In fact like the other conjoined twins they can perform the tasks of reading and writing individually but need coordination when it comes to brushing their hair and driving.

Upon their birth, their parents Patty and Mike Hensel decided not to attempt surgical separation after hearing from the doctors that it was not likely that both would survive the operation. As they developed and figured out how to walk and create different aptitudes, their folks affirmed their ruling against division, contending that the personal satisfaction for the enduring twin or twins living independently would be not exactly their personal satisfaction as conjoined people.

The twins have a solitary body with discrete heads and necks, a chest that is more extensive than ordinary, two arms, and two legs. During childbirth, they had a simple arm between the bases of their necks connected to a shoulder bone at the back, being consolidated parts of Abby’s left arm and Brittany’s correct arm. It was expelled, leaving the shoulder bone.

Abby’s head tilts along the side outward around 5 degrees to one side, while Brittany’s tilts horizontally at around 15 degrees to one side, making her seem shorter notwithstanding when situated. Brittany’s leg is in certainty about two inches shorter than Abby’s and Brittany will in general stand and stroll on pussyfoot which has made her lower leg muscle altogether bigger than Abby’s. The proceeded with development of Abby’s spine was precisely ended after Brittany rashly halted growing. At age 12, they experienced medical procedure at Gillette Children’s Specialty Healthcare to address scoliosis and to extend their chest hole to avoid future challenges with breathing.

Each twin oversees one side of their conjoined body. The feeling of touch of each is limited to her body a large portion of; this shades off at the midsagittal plane with the end goal that there is a little measure of cover at the midline. Stomach hurts, in any case, are felt by just the twin on the inverse side.

They are powerful in helpfully utilizing their appendages when the two hands or the two legs are required. By organizing their endeavors, they can walk, run, swim, and ride a bike regularly—all errands that they learned at an ordinary speed. Together, they can type on a PC console at an ordinary speed and drive a vehicle. Nonetheless, their unique statures (Abby, 5 ft 2 in (1.57 m), is taller and longer of leg than Brittany, 4 ft 10 in (1.47 m)) prompted trouble in adjusting a Segway, as appeared in their 2012 reality series.

The twins both passed their driver’s permit tests, both the composed and driving tests. They needed to step through the exams twice, once for each twin. Abby controls the gadgets on the privilege of the driver’s seat; Brittany, those on the left. Together they control the directing wheel.

They both moved on from secondary school in 2008. They started school at Bethel University in Arden Hills, Minnesota, studying instruction. They had thought about seeking after various fixations inside that major, however, the volume of additional coursework was prohibitive. They graduated with Bachelor of Arts degrees in 2012.

In a discussion, the twins are unmistakably particular people, with unmistakable preferences. Their inclinations in sustenance, attire shading, and so on., contrast. A portion of their garments is modified by their needleworker with the goal that they have two separate neck areas so as to accentuate their independence. They, as a rule, have separate suppers, however here and there offer a solitary feast for accommodation (e.g., each taking a nibble of a similar ground sirloin sandwich). Abby is better at arithmetic, and Brittany at composing.

For errands, for example, reacting to email, they type and react as one, foreseeing each other’s sentiments with minimal verbal correspondence between them. In such cases as the last mentioned, their decision of linguistic individual is to utilize “I” when they concur, yet utilize their names when their reactions do vary.

There is some worry about the twins’ proceeded with great wellbeing, in light of the fact that just four known arrangements of conjoined twins who share a unified middle and two legs have ever made due into adulthood, and most have intrinsic heart deserts or other organ abnormalities. None has appeared for their situation.

They seriously detest being gazed at or captured by outsiders while approaching their private lives. In meetings for the Discovery Channel in 2006, they, at that point 16, said that they would have liked to date, get hitched, and have youngsters. They likewise expressed that they trusted that by giving some data about themselves, they would have the capacity to lead generally genuinely run of the mill social lives.

The twins progress has been covered in the media, in the Life magazine and the Oprah Winfrey Show.