It may be difficult to visualise how untraditional women would cope in the situation that existed in traditional pre-independence India.

How would a woman marry the man she wanted to instead of the one her parents forced upon her. Similarly, how would a man get the bride of his choice, in a rigid social system?

In a set up where men were supposed to think of the welfare of a society that thought collectively, how could man have the luxury to fall in love with a woman his heart warmed up to? We may never get to realise how people in the past managed their very personal affairs. The Tailor’s Needle provides some of these situations.