Some Indian wisdom!

By: Qwaider

On:Thursday, November 08, 2007 8:47:57 AM
In:Thoughts
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An Indian worker in my team recently got married! He's younger than me (28) and managed to save up 30 Laks (Some currency multiplier for the Rupee) He needed that money to buy a house back in Hyderabad for his future wife, (Who will pay him dowry equivalent to 35 laks) to get married. So bottom line, he gains 5 laks!

So I ask Kumar (not his real name), when is a good time to get married. He replies (after 10 days of marriage), NEVER!

So it appears that Indians are like Arabs, they FORCE their kids to get married BY a due date! So for example, A girl who is 23 is like 2 days old milk (Yeah, about to expire)

For the dudes, the golden number is, 28! You're at your prime if you're 28. And you start losing Laks by the day after 28! Talk about no pressure!

Funny thing about their invitations is that right below the name, it states something they brag about. Like "Kumar Ramakrishnaparasadshankar, Google, USA". Which sounds a lot like a corporate marriage than a meeting

He had a 3 day wedding (which is not that much compared to the other jerk down the hall with 6 days). Apparently, there's a LOT that goes in the marriage. First they have to match castes, then they match star-signs. Later on they match thier dates that they can marry and everything else should fall in place. They don't even have to meet or see each other!

So they've been married what, 10 days.. and still have not had their first fight. A fellow 29 year old colleague tells him, Ahh you have not broken the ice yet!

But turns out, these priests that do the matching appear to know what they're doing. This guy barely has a voice! And his wife is soft spoken too! It's like, you can never find someone that is SO MUCH LIKE YOU let alone have all the above (money, age, caste, astrocrap...etc)

I'm so intrigued that I'm thinking of calling the damn wedding planners! I should get at least 25 laks for this overinflated bee-hind

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#1
chikapappi
Said
On: 11/8/2007 9:23:35 AM

Very complicated & you are talking about marriage alot these days! WHY!?

#2
Bakez
Said
On: 11/8/2007 10:15:35 AM

Ok, but why did you feel the need to replace his real name with "Kumar"? ya3ni, its not like any of us know the guy :P
ba3dain whats wrong with arranged marriages ya akhi? it worked for earlier generations, look at our grandfathers, almost all of them lived happily for ever, unlike these days where divorce has become a fashion.

#3
طفيلي( ahmad)
Said
On: 11/8/2007 10:42:10 AM

Bakez, i agree with you that arranged marrige is better than other ways.I have read once in eqypt, the divorce was very high in marraiges based on love and was very low in marriages based on old tradition through family.

#4
bluelilly
Said
On: 11/8/2007 12:48:02 PM

every one has his thoughts priciples and habits and we have to accept all of these and evryone can do what he wants so bakez tafealy and qwaider u can do what u want when u get married:)

#5
wonders
Said
On: 11/8/2007 5:08:29 PM

the only reason for a low divorce rate in arranged marriages i could think of is that the couple didn't have a say in the marriage in the first place what makes you think they have a say in the divorce?

when comparing them, divorce rate isn't the best benchmark you should look at to decided wich road you want to take. You should compare the happiness percentage amongst couples from the two ways of getting married.

this is one thing, the second, i find it hard to see this study as valid in the first place. i don't think it holds that much...

#6
Tammer
Said
On: 11/8/2007 6:51:58 PM

i totally agree with wonders. i think its more about a choice, many people stay married although they are absolutely miserable, like women who have no financial independence.

#7
Catholic Sunni Shia
Said
On: 11/8/2007 7:05:43 PM

LOL that you named your Indian Kumar.

#8
Rami
Said
On: 11/9/2007 2:13:36 AM

Hey...Samer
Just wanted to thank you again for the great afternoon we spent together last month...it was grea getting to know you better...take care and keep in touch