I have a confession to make. No I’m not gonna say all those things that might rush through your mind following the utterance of that phrase. This is a bit different and to my knowledge could be unique because girls generally don’t like being where I’m right now-in the matrimony market. I’m 24 now and it all, like in most Indian families, started just after my 23rd birthday.
Since then, the news has spread like wild fire and I have landed up having three matchmakers in three different corners of the city and my birth charts matched with 15 boys living in different corners of the country. And I haven’t met any of them because well cosmically I’m not compatible with any of them. This proves my innocent single hood of 24 years
It’s not just the matchmakers who are doing their job, but homegrown aunties are also doing their bit for me. The band of aunties would include my immediate aunties and their comrades (also woman) and the network just spreads farther than the skyline I believe. All this nexus building, passing on my photos and birth chart almost like passing the parcel makes me feel like I’m almost famous.
Maybe not Bob Dylan style famous, but in my own little secured world suddenly me and my “Mr Right” are on everybody’s mind. So is this what it means when the whole universe (which means the people in it) conspires to get you what you want?
Maybe who knows, I would like to look at it that way.
Till then Happy Matrimony Hunt
Friday, March 18, 2011
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
As deadly as it gets…would this be the end of it all?
March has started on a deadly note, first we had a body of a woman found in the suitcase at Juhu beach. In Mumbai a mother of two first threw them off the building terrace and then committing suicide herself. During the same time there was the horrendous Tsunami and earthquake in the tiny little island country of Japan, the number of deaths there are beyond anybody’s imagination.
Back in Delhi a girl named Radhika Tanwar was killed in broad daylight by her stalker of “three years”. Just yesterday a 24-year-old Indian girl student in Australia was brutally murdered and her body was found in a suitcase. In Mumbai an 11 year-old girl committed suicide, when her mother found out about her affair with a classmate.
All of the above incidences spell out just one reality, “Humans are getting worse by the minute”. The capacity to take life as it comes and face it bravely is diminishing and I fear one day it will disappear to the horror of everyone. I know it’s not brave to just sit here and key-in the words and reflect and wonder on these events.
But I don’t want to reflect, because I’m not mentally and professionally in a position to sit and speculate of what goes on in a person’s mind when they carry out such acts. In fact when I read the story of the mother and her kids I felt nervous and started to worry about the Indian housewife who might just not be safe in her “own home”. About the murders it just gets weird with every story, a decade ago we had the spine-chilling news of a husband killing his wife by frying her into the tandoor. Since that day I started believing that human beings are not the most civilized but rather the most cannibalized species on this planet, move over the carnivores.
However, stress levels have always been there, money crunch was always lingering and humans where always these problems existed before and it’s only that with higher-levels of vulnerability that humans are taking to suicide or murder as logical solutions to their problems and hence it’s now that this reality is staring starkly in our face. I just dread to open newspapers forget reading them anymore.
As for the calamity in Japan well it’s natures forces acting against us and while some say this too shall pass, a few others are pondering over the end of the world theory according to the Mayan calendar; which says that the world will end in December 2012…..not that the world is a great place to live and not that we are getting any better. But like Billy Joel said, “We didn’t start the fire… it was always burning since the world’s been turning…
Well I don’t know, but I do care.
Back in Delhi a girl named Radhika Tanwar was killed in broad daylight by her stalker of “three years”. Just yesterday a 24-year-old Indian girl student in Australia was brutally murdered and her body was found in a suitcase. In Mumbai an 11 year-old girl committed suicide, when her mother found out about her affair with a classmate.
All of the above incidences spell out just one reality, “Humans are getting worse by the minute”. The capacity to take life as it comes and face it bravely is diminishing and I fear one day it will disappear to the horror of everyone. I know it’s not brave to just sit here and key-in the words and reflect and wonder on these events.
But I don’t want to reflect, because I’m not mentally and professionally in a position to sit and speculate of what goes on in a person’s mind when they carry out such acts. In fact when I read the story of the mother and her kids I felt nervous and started to worry about the Indian housewife who might just not be safe in her “own home”. About the murders it just gets weird with every story, a decade ago we had the spine-chilling news of a husband killing his wife by frying her into the tandoor. Since that day I started believing that human beings are not the most civilized but rather the most cannibalized species on this planet, move over the carnivores.
However, stress levels have always been there, money crunch was always lingering and humans where always these problems existed before and it’s only that with higher-levels of vulnerability that humans are taking to suicide or murder as logical solutions to their problems and hence it’s now that this reality is staring starkly in our face. I just dread to open newspapers forget reading them anymore.
As for the calamity in Japan well it’s natures forces acting against us and while some say this too shall pass, a few others are pondering over the end of the world theory according to the Mayan calendar; which says that the world will end in December 2012…..not that the world is a great place to live and not that we are getting any better. But like Billy Joel said, “We didn’t start the fire… it was always burning since the world’s been turning…
Well I don’t know, but I do care.
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