Question

Why had Ranga decided to remain a bachelor

Answer 1

Ranga was a young man from the narrator’s village Hosahalli, Karnataka. He is son of the accountant.  

When Ranga returned from Bangalore after his studies, the narrator thought it was time the young man got married.

But Ranga refused to marry because he believed that child marriage is an evil.

He therefore wanted to remain bachelor till he found a mature woman to marry.