20th MAY's episode on SATYAMEV JAYATE should reach as a
slap on all those Indian males in India and abroad who still expect or accept
DOWRY. The episode’s 1st victim was a girl who would have had a
bright future had she not got hitched to a looser NRI. What is the purpose of
marriage??? Earning money or earning love and a lifetime of companionship.
Bloody, on one hand Devdas wasted all his life just b’coz he
dint get the girl he loved. Chandramukhi
lived a lonely life just in the hope
that one day she will get the love of her life and on the other hand there are
well educated guys from IT field etc and also NRI’s who get married just to get
dowry. On one hand there are handicapped people who even after loosing a hand
or a leg are working hard to earn a respectful living and on the other hand
modern marwadi boys tell me “ I cant go against my dad and it’s a tradition in
our culture to take heavy gifts.” Are boys loosing their spinal cord these
days?
But are they the only one to be blamed or are the girl and
her parents equally responsible. The statistic show that currently there are
approximately 30,000 females sitting at their parents house in Punjab waiting
for their NRI husbands to call them from INDIA. The parents of a girl always
wish a better future for their darling daughter but the question is what comes
under “Better Future”. A guy who loves and takes care of their princess for a
life time or Big houses, Big cars, lavish lifestyle or rather a Green card. Am
not denying that money is not important but how much do we need??? At the death
bed what would I do with a hefty bank balance if I don’t have anybody to hold
my hand and tell me “I love you.”
A friend of mine recently got divorced some 6months back.
Now I feel she was very lucky to finish the relation in 10 months of marriage
rather then going through any tortures. The symptoms were same – the guy and
his family pretended to be of modern thinking and very open minded in the
beginning. Once the relation got fixed they started saying they wanted a lavish
engagement party and then a BIG FAT WEDDING. The girl kept on telling her
parents to deny all that and only spent how much is possible for them. After
the wedding the guy showed least interest in her. Finally she came back to her
parents and got divorced. But I guess all of this could have been avoided.
Its time we need to decide where do we as the
youth of INDIA want to go.
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