Thursday, November 24, 2005

The Great Indian Marraige - II

I had talked abt the Indian marriage fun-fare, fan-fare, hoopla-la and the shit that happens in this occasion. I have more to talk abt the thing that happens before the boy or the girl or the parents of both the families give their final consent. The usual process

  1. the girl sees the boys photo and vice-a-versa
  2. Both of them agree and a meeting is set up usually in the girls place until the families or the individuals are daring enough to meet some where else to decide upon if the other can control their lives.
  3. The boy and girl see each other have a small chat in private.
  4. consent from both the families are exchanged after some days
  5. if it is a NO then no issues repeat the above again......if a yes then follow on
  6. the Horoscope of the bride and the groom are exchanged and matched
  7. if not matched then no problem repeat the above again else follow on
  8. once the stars and sun are in aligned in the right direction a date is set for the engagement
  9. engagement is done on the fixed day......yummy food
  10. Bride and groom are to be married woodbeeeeeees in a short time say two to three months.
  11. marriage day comes get marred(yummy foooood) go to honey-moon, return back to home.......return early to home from ofc in the pretext of ****
  12. And life goes on & on & on & on & on....

In these 12 steps to a great marriage and future married life a lot of things can happen in between. Like pursuing the girl or the boy to get married. This is the most shitties job one can imagine. Telling the boy or girl why he or she should marry her or him. It is like selling Ice creams in Arctic and Antartic.man I can be a good marketing executive.......who care if u w crack CAT and get a degree from IIM. ppl get married because of many reasons like age, coz they have to get married, coz they are in love, coz some body in their is sick and want to see their young ones married before they leave this planet and all. I still don’t know why ppl get married. well another issue dat happens is like the girls is not fair, fat, tall, short,round,.....all geometrics here and employed and et.al. The same also hold good with the boy but more importantly he is not earning enough money how can he take care of her??????Phew the guy will surely go for a whirlpool ride. Many a cases ppl have come close to getting engaged and their marriage proposals area called off coz of one of the many reasons cited above. Ppl get so close with each other in the due course of time when they meet their partners that if any such thing happens to them it literally tears them apart.
why the ppl cant just choose their partners, fuck the process let it be limited to the meeting part upto point2 and let them decide if they are compatible with each other? at least they have themselves to blame of anything goes wrong in the future.

Sunday, November 13, 2005

Diwali and an Indian Wedding

Two mega events are lined up this year towards the end of monsoon. Diwali the festival of lights and my cousins marriage. Both these events are running back to back like some series of block buster movies in HBO or Star Movies. I think these occasions are itself a movie in disguise. Diwali the festival of lights marks of victory of good over evil, light over darkness. It was on this day that Lord Rama returned from exile of 14 years(forgive me with my history if I m wrong). People of Ayodhya welcomed him back home by lighting Diyas or Lamps in their houses. Since then the festival is celebrated by lighting lamps and bursting crackers and not to mention the sweets and slurpy food that accompanies the festival. I remember those days when we as kids used to burst crackers like maniacs. We use to get up wearly in the morning and have a competion as to who wud be the first person to burst the crackers. The show wud then go on for three days with great excitement and fun. My favorites then were the bombs that produced most of the noise. Boy we use to do crazy thing in the open ground of our school. Today after around 10 years of all this craziness there is no zest to burst crackers and have the same amount of fun. Surprisingly and shockingly the people also have seem to lost the interest. I did not find the environment being polluted by sound and smoke from the bursting of crackers. Wonder what has crept into the peoples minds. Is the modernization of the society and its residents or the conciseness of the people towards the environment or the lack of young school going kids (if this is true then I need to ‘fuk like minks and raise rug rats’ and bring back those lost days)? Well a lot of thinking will be done on this……..rit???


Marriage: the bonding of two souls…….dats wat the elders say (I heard of these in the movies than in real life). Wat ever to me it looks more like a DISCO a few moments of extravaganza, for some it is losing freedom, for some losing virginity and for some it is a compulsion. for me it is Worries Invited For Ever he he he he he;-). Indin weddinf is no fun and especially if u represent the bride. It is the bride’s family who takes care of the entire event I mean the marriage, the function, the food and in some cases even the DOWRY and many more that goes into this bonding. Man the bills seem to never end and money flows like water in a violent river. Get the whole family and close relatives clohes to wear, jwellery , shoes , watches and yield to the boys demands . these are the norms of the century. On the day of the marriage hell lot of people to take care and some weird questions to people whom u never met in your life time it just sucks. I strongly feel why have all these discos? To let the whole world know u, ur daughter or ur son is getting married????? Damn it then why don’t u put an ad in a leading daily news paper people will come to know about it. In my opinion get married in the court or a temple and host a decent reception. Fuk all this hoop-la and gimmick. Use that moey some where else……….maybe charity. Well it seems easy to write here wonder wat will happen to………..!!!!!!!