Date:06/05/2005 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2005/05/06/stories/2005050612500300.htm

Karnataka - Bangalore

When Raj met Parvati

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: On Thursday, Rajkumar went down memory lane and recalled how he met his life partner several years ago when she was about four or five months old. "It was when my father took me to their house to help me learn music from her father. I met her first when she was four or five months old," he said.

He said it was his father who told Parvathi's parents that his family would be privileged to have her as a daughter-in-law.Dr. Rajkumar remembered how everyone teased him for marrying a dark girl.