Random thoughts and Rants

This line "The big fat Indian wedding" can have several meanings. Does it mean that people eat a lot and turn fat after each wedding or does it mean a wedding of two utterly butterly Fat person?? We all know that none of these is true. It means a fat amount of money spent over the agreement of two persons to stay together for their entire life and.....,times might have changed a bit today but till very recent days and even now this agreement happens between two person who haven't met each other ever before and surprisingly they agree and spend the money of their lifetime over the same... just to stay with a unknown person for their entire life.

Whatever, its afterall a personal choice that whom u want to spend ur life with.. lets nt get into that. But what about the fatness of our wedding season. When evryone is planning to go slim and green... Indian weddings are growing fatter and fatter. I mean who cares about the people who have loads of money.. they ve gt it.. so they ought to spend it. But what happens to the normal Indian middle class which always try to follow... and ultimately finds itself in deep shit...

Deep shit... sounds too exaggerated a word to criticize such a beautiful occasion....! But Its true! We dnt have figures about how many "Ram" and "Shyam" (couldnt think of better names) drop out of their studies after their sister's marriage. Probably Ram drops out when first sister gets married and shyam drops out at the seocnd.

Whats the point of spending an amount which u cant afford thru ur lifetime (done one mistake alredy by not being enuf to afford the fatness... commiting second by trying to afford when u cant).

We boast our thoughts about gender equality... but hw could we convince a father to agree on gender equality who knows that he is earning only for one reason i.e. he needs to spend an amount that is more than wt he earns thru his lifetime, if he got a daughter in his home.

I dont want to talk about old India cos I dnt knw hw exactly it was... giving and accepting dowry during those times might have been a status symbol.. and thats why parents are really interested... may be...but hw about the new gen India... the educated one... It's quite an irony... In some states, the more u r educated, the fatter amount u get as a dowry... Try negotiating for a guy who has competed in UPSC or IIT...nd u ll find that they get dowry as big as half of their lifetime salary...nd wow.. they accept it gracefully without any regret... Such people should be thrown out of their organisations not to teach a lesson to them but to those guys who paid dowry just in the name of their degree or job.

I dont need to mention the number of gals burnt evry year in the name of dowry... aah this topic is rusted now.