Meri Kudiyan

Watching a re-run of Friends where Monica and Chandler marry(finally) after many procrastinations. I thought about the criteria of Punjabi parents finding a Prince for their daughters.

It is equivalent to getting a chalice of champions, a vessel of victory by lassoing an eligible munda from phoren waters. The magical $sign, the ubiquitous tag that the boy is working abroad covers all the defects ranging from over-age to second marriages to former wives to kids to being HIV positive.

Do you know how many girls are married off in this fashion so as to be a conduit for their families to get immigration? The figures are mind-boggling and once they do go abroad your daughter would one of the lucky few if she is not abused emotionally, physically and even in some cases scarred and tortured by pati parmeshwar.

Horror stories of these naive girls are exchanged over cups of tea nonchalantly as if one was discussing the British weather .

It rains but never pours, this steady drizzle of news has made us all oblivious to everything, We don't react just turn the paper and then throw it away . The Indian psyche is such that we use newspapers for garbage, lining the tiffin for the office goer or the school child or to clean the windows. My windows should sparkle more than Mrs Sharma's being the motto. In fact this is the common woman's cardio .

meri kudiayan are all sacrificed on the green card/citizen ship stamp , and what does it matter ? It was her kismat and you did do a big Punjabi style fat wedding ? Ki farak painda hain, at least we are all in the basement in Kaneda.

cry people, it doesn't spare anyone.