We are "the" Indians. We love our marriage celebrations, we are noisy when we celebrate..even if it means disrupting other people's peace and troubling them, 100000 watts of blaring "fevicol se" and "halkat jawaani" are not enough to express our joy, 25000 light bulbs (so what if they are brightening our marriage hall at some one else's expense, read 'katiya' )appear dim in front of our enthusiasm for celebrating something as blissful as marriage.
We are Indians, we do not care if the marriage hall is in a residential area and the kids have got their exams, we will play "Tera pyar hukkah baar" umpteen no of times even if the sole occupants of the DJ floor are few toddlers and some drunk old men thinking themselves equal to Hrithik Roshan.
We are Indians, we have full rights to take our 'Baaraat' (marriage procession) from the busiest road even if its causing trouble to the daily commuters. We dont care even if an ambulance is passing by, we wont let it go unless we have danced our hearts to the out of tune songs belted by some amateur singer. We dont care even if the person in the ambulance dies, 1000 of people die daily.
We are Indians, we dont care if the bride's poor father has mortgaged his house to pay for the party, we will eat as if we have never eaten before. We know each plate costs around 500 Rs, still we will take separate plates for ice creams, desserts and will allow our kids to take 2-3 plates, so what if the catering people are counting each plate, after all we are from the groom's side..and then we will keep cribbing about how the moong-dal halwa was uncooked and how there was so much mismanagement in food.
We are Indians, why should we care about making earth a greener place, we will burn 10000 rs of crackers in the marriage, even if it is troubling the street animals or the asthmatics of that area.
We are Indians, and we pledge to remain ostentatious.
We are Indians, we do not care if the marriage hall is in a residential area and the kids have got their exams, we will play "Tera pyar hukkah baar" umpteen no of times even if the sole occupants of the DJ floor are few toddlers and some drunk old men thinking themselves equal to Hrithik Roshan.
We are Indians, we have full rights to take our 'Baaraat' (marriage procession) from the busiest road even if its causing trouble to the daily commuters. We dont care even if an ambulance is passing by, we wont let it go unless we have danced our hearts to the out of tune songs belted by some amateur singer. We dont care even if the person in the ambulance dies, 1000 of people die daily.
We are Indians, we dont care if the bride's poor father has mortgaged his house to pay for the party, we will eat as if we have never eaten before. We know each plate costs around 500 Rs, still we will take separate plates for ice creams, desserts and will allow our kids to take 2-3 plates, so what if the catering people are counting each plate, after all we are from the groom's side..and then we will keep cribbing about how the moong-dal halwa was uncooked and how there was so much mismanagement in food.
We are Indians, why should we care about making earth a greener place, we will burn 10000 rs of crackers in the marriage, even if it is troubling the street animals or the asthmatics of that area.
We are Indians, and we pledge to remain ostentatious.
I have to agree. It is indeed the ugly truth.
ReplyDeleteHarsh truth !!!
ReplyDeleteThe country really needs someone or something to end the never- ending sleep it is in. This post of yours truly makes sense but it will take another century for the people to realize. Sad but True!
ReplyDeleteI never believe in ranting about the shortcoming of people as a nation...I always believe in acting rather than writing about it or cribbing about it, but somehow my patience gave up and I wrote...
ReplyDeleteHa ha ha.. totally true...
ReplyDeleteyour satirical post and my post- http://pratik-openbuk.blogspot.in/2010/10/satire-on-arranged-marriages.html
both these observations go hand in hand.
somehow this is so irritating I want to put a ban on wedding celebrations..
ReplyDeleteVery well said and written...India is a big circus and marriages are such a social yet anti social tamasha. wedding banquet is such a joke.
ReplyDeleteBesides Govt should ban crackers.
That marriage thing is so so true!! So many people can be fed if we keep it simple. Its such a waste of money.
ReplyDeleteekta and DS , thanks for reading,
ReplyDeleteand seriously we keep shouting on govt to eliminate poverty on one hand and keep wasting food on the other.
We are Indians, we dont care if the bride's poor father has mortgaged his house to pay for the party, we will eat as if we have never eaten before. We know each plate costs around 500 Rs, still we will take separate plates for ice creams, desserts and will allow our kids to take 2-3 plates, so what if the catering people are counting each plate, after all we are from the groom's side//
ReplyDeletewhat can we say, we are Indians who freaking love big fat weddings at the cost of our lifetime savings.
this sad culture really has to change. Except that i see it going to the worse end -> designer clothing, palatial wedding halls, and a wedding-photographer who captures "moments"
When one does not get a job, he becomes a school teacher. What else do you want to become Indian children then? This is what is going to happen here for centuries to come. Our basics are wrong.
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