Ma. Ilangkannan is one of Singapore's greatest writers. He is the first Tamil writer to receive Thailand's Southeast Asian Writing Award. Born and brought up in Singapore, he has expressed the lifestyles, joys and sorrows of Singaporeans through his writing. The first short novel in his short novel collection is ‘Porudham’. The novel is a renaissance piece of literature on marriage suitability, one of the superstitions prevalent in the 1960s. Parents who marry off their children in the name of favouritism act with a false mind-set that only favourability is enough without giving importance to anything else. At the end of the novel, the author beautifully presents the impotence of the human caste, those who are unable to let go of this habit even after realizing that astrology is not something to follow completely, through the character of Chellammal. The purpose of this article is to study the effects of such a ritual on the married life of children.

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