Bhubaneswar, Feb. 9 -- Love brings magic to life. Even a simple person can turn into a magician and creative when he has to do something special for his beloved. And one of the most important milestones in any relationship is proposing to your dearest.

Popularly, in the Western world and nowadays even in India, the most common way to propose to someone is by bending down on the knee and asking for her/his hand in marriage.

While it surely is a very common romantic tradition today, many people do not know that it has an interesting history. This particular tradition of proposing by bending on one knee started during the medieval times when the knights used to bow down on one knee before the noblewomen and would ask their hand in marriage...