Love Story Part Deux
I am in love. I love him.
How many times have you heard it? I have always
thought that it doesn’t happen, I mean you know the bolly wood type of love
where a young girl will try to commit suicide for a stupid boy (sorry, it just
doesn’t make sense) and says I cant live without him. And always, the girl is more educated than
the boy; and then on top of it they are always from a different caste.
This happens only in India, no made in China here.
In fact, last week I was roped in to counsel this
chemical engineering girl who was madly in love with a tenth pass velapanti boy
of an opposite caste. And then it is
about upper and lower caste. What is this, a password definition for secrecy?
This girl after two and half years of loving him and trying to improve his
philandering nature and roving eye (he is simultaneously going around with two
other girls; one in the village) tried to commit suicide by hanging herself
from the fan.
Thank God, for no electricity. Also, a blessing in
disguise that the doors break so easily, you know like a B grade potboiler. We
had it all, happening in the village. The 20 something girl loves him, wants to
teach him a lesson that he is missing out on her …
Where do these half-baked ideas come from? Why is life
so value-less? Doesn’t she realize that love is lust? It is fickle at this
stage? And taking pictures in religious places and declaring undying love is
not real life. Her father is a tarpaulin stitcher; yes that is a job in real
India. An India, far away from reality, rupee fluctuation, gold import, Ladakh Vandalization
by the Chinese but invaded by face book on cheap Chinese knock off smart
phones.
This, all
sounds so much better in Punjabi! And , she still wants to kill herself, the
boy is doing what every Punjabi boy does… flying out to phoren land to work.
Passport made, visa in hand, land sold and going to make dollahs.
I
am at a loss; and so upset that why would an intelligent girl kill herself over
a wastrel? Maybe, I don’t believe in this love
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