Thank you, Vipin Prakash Aggrawal! I attended a preview of a North Indian wedding of vipin’s sister at Merut , a small town in western UP (remember 1857 war?). And it looks like the city has seen no development since1857 (technically called preserving the ancient roots!!).
We cancelled the train ticket and went to bus stand (to gain time), only to see that the bus had left. So we took the train ticket again and went to station only to find the train delayed by three hours. By the time the train had come, we had discussed past, present and future, classmates and profs, romances, courtships and failures and hmmm.. money. Thanks to some great planning and divine interventions, we managed to travel the maximum possible time and reached home at 11:00 AM of his sister’s wedding day.
The chief guest of Namrata Aggrawal’s wedding, our own buddy, went straight to hotel where Baraat took place stenched in sweat and scent, (no time to bath!!). I did a crow bath and followed suit. So there we were, two crumpled looking IIMs in new clothes.
Nitin Aggrawal (brother) was short of men, and yours truly had great time welcoming groom’s relatives. He didn’t know who were the ones and who weren’t, so ended up parading a few unsuspecting strangers to the hall.
The next was some ceremony where the groom’s relative decorates the bride. But isn’t she is already decorated, I asked Vipin. Yeah, he said, decoration used to be done by them, but nowadays its token symbolism for the video. Ah, the perils of outsourcing!
Vipin was busy with meeting people, and as I was jobless, I eavesdropped a few conversations- Sumit’s (groom) friends saying something about Waitlists and RACs and whatelse, and sumit (as expected) blushing at regular intervals. Yawn, change the channel.
I learnt that there were a couple of army majors. So I went upto them, made them at ease (you guys are doing a great job in jammu evacuation!) and started implementing my only-the big-apple-gets-hit principle (Doesn’t episodes like manorama erode army credibility? What do you say about stats that show court martials have gone up in recent years? Or for that matter, hasn’t the soldier’s motivation reached its nadir in Kashmir, as shown by increasing suicides?) One fellow got a little nervous (so did I!) but other was measured and logical (manorama, an isolated incident blown up by media and politicians, court martials show transparency and decisiveness, motivation is personal and not easily measurable.) Well said, Captain Ravi.
Vipin introduced me to a gorgeous friend of his, Ruchi, and we spent the rest of the evening chatting like old buddies. Other ceremonies like reception, circling the fire (forgot the name) were text book like.
Namrata bade Al vidha to her family, Vipin cried loudly and made funny noises so I encouraged him to continue. All in all, it was wonderful time at Merut.
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