Since,
everybody in India marries at least once in life. This is something which
remains same across all social religions and economic statuses. You marry if
you earn a lakh a month or even if you are still living off your parents’
money. There are some sanskari customs attached to this khandani culture. I bring you some of them.
People ranging from your far off bua you never meet, your masi you talk to once in a year and some Sharma aunty invisibly living in the same neighbourhood as you will start getting you marriage offers since you reached the ‘right age’.
They are the kind of people who give you the right to choose your own clothes based on your own comfort ability, choice, size, etc. But, when it comes to choosing your life partner, they think they are better at that.
There will be some set parameters to decide the right bride/groom for you like his/ her skin tone, income, caste and sometimes even the taste of the chutney they serve with the samosa.
At times, you even marry to become mature and responsible or to stop loving the person your family doesn’t approve of.
Sometimes, you will have to marry for the sake of your younger siblings, since they can only marry after you or no one will marry them as well because people belonging to these species have a unique disease called shadi pox whose antidote is your marriage.
You will be told to decide your life partner while you drink a cup of chai and eat a plate of samosa.
You will finally meet some far off relatives, you only meet twice in your life, once at your wedding and second on their wedding.
There are some below poverty line people who only come to eat. They can afford clothes but not food. Anyways, they are still better than the rest, since they atleast have a purpose in life and they do believe in minding their own business.
In the middle of all this glitter and shimmer in the wedding, there will be those hot, attractive people of the opposite sex you get to a chance to meet and maybe plan your own with, in the future…
Basically, marriages are a plethora of colours and feelings and relatives you may or may not enjoy. They happen because the people you don’t even know properly want to see you happy and you can only be happy when you marry at the ‘right time’ with the person they decide or the curse of unhappiness is believed to haunt you for life. So marry and stay happy.
People ranging from your far off bua you never meet, your masi you talk to once in a year and some Sharma aunty invisibly living in the same neighbourhood as you will start getting you marriage offers since you reached the ‘right age’.
They are the kind of people who give you the right to choose your own clothes based on your own comfort ability, choice, size, etc. But, when it comes to choosing your life partner, they think they are better at that.
There will be some set parameters to decide the right bride/groom for you like his/ her skin tone, income, caste and sometimes even the taste of the chutney they serve with the samosa.
At times, you even marry to become mature and responsible or to stop loving the person your family doesn’t approve of.
Sometimes, you will have to marry for the sake of your younger siblings, since they can only marry after you or no one will marry them as well because people belonging to these species have a unique disease called shadi pox whose antidote is your marriage.
You will be told to decide your life partner while you drink a cup of chai and eat a plate of samosa.
You will finally meet some far off relatives, you only meet twice in your life, once at your wedding and second on their wedding.
There are some below poverty line people who only come to eat. They can afford clothes but not food. Anyways, they are still better than the rest, since they atleast have a purpose in life and they do believe in minding their own business.
In the middle of all this glitter and shimmer in the wedding, there will be those hot, attractive people of the opposite sex you get to a chance to meet and maybe plan your own with, in the future…
Basically, marriages are a plethora of colours and feelings and relatives you may or may not enjoy. They happen because the people you don’t even know properly want to see you happy and you can only be happy when you marry at the ‘right time’ with the person they decide or the curse of unhappiness is believed to haunt you for life. So marry and stay happy.
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