Okay fellas, I am back to marriage thing.
I have already talked about the process of arrange marriage and my first and second meeting during arrange marriage process. Now comes the third one, as the marriage proposals were flowing in both directions it leads to another meeting with parents of a girl from Rohini, Delhi. I know, you must be thinking that why I am writing all this about families from Delhi and if you did not then this statement of mine made you think that. Seriously, I do not have any intention to project anything wrong/negative for families from Delhi, it was me only who wanted to have my life partner from NCR (why? Well, there are many reasons which may need a separate post, so, not this time). There were some good meetings as well, but, as I already said in my first post that these posts will contain my funny (or weird) meeting experience with family members of those potential prospective brides.
Meeting with girl’s parents was fixed at my apartment, again, I thought maybe they want to see how this bachelor is keeping up his home or may be my living standard. Thankfully they were only two people to screen me, the mother (the Lady) and the father. I escorted them in to my apartment and made them settle down. After exchanging usual pleasantries and serving them whatever I had arranged the lady opened the questionnaire:-
The Lady: So, Ankit, tell me about yourself.
This question sounded like an interview question which is generally asked to candidates to start interview and I answered in that manner only.
The Lady: Ok, good. So from where you did your schooling and graduation? From Gujarat or from U.P?
Me: I did my whole schooling from Gujarat and graduation from U.P.
Girl’s father was smiling and pushing his both knees with his both hands. May be he was feeling sleepy or he was stressed out of driving from Rohini to Noida
The Lady: Ok and what was your percentages in Xth, XIIth and B.Tech?
Smile from face of girl’s father got vanished and I literally said
Me: Excuse Me.
From here the conversation went in Hindi
The Lady: Marks aapke Xth, XIIth and B.Tech me. Beta agar aap comfortable nahin ho to mat batao. Main ye dekhna chah rahi thi ki how intelligent you are.
Me: I am totally confortable in it. Itne bure marks nahin he mere, wo kya he na ki aisa question aaj tak kisi ne aisi meeting me pucha nahin to I was little shocked.
I told them about my marks and I wanted to told her that a person cannot be always declared as intelligent by looking at academics but I didn’t . She started digging her purse and took out some papers and handed over to me.
The Lady: Ye humari beti ki MCA ki photo copy he and uski transcript bhi he. Main generally rakhti hoon agar koi dekhna chahe to. Beta aap dikha sakte ho apne degree and transcript?
“Shock laga laga shock laga…..” I thought ki ye aunty marriage silsele me aayi he ya she is some third party verification agent.
Me: Arey aunty!! Iski koi zaroorat nahin he. Aapne bataya to I totally believe you after all ye to vishwas karne waali baat he. Haan wo baat sahi he ki verify karna chahiye as aajkal dhoka dhadi bahut hoti he.
She didn’t say any word, she smiled a bit and then become somewhat serious. I continued
Me: Waise aunty Preksha (imaginary name) ke Xth and XIIth ke certificates and marksheets nahi laye aap? Waise kitne marks the unke?
The Lady: Unke <something something> marks the aur baaki documents to he nahin mere pass. Aap k documents…..??
Me: Actually aunty, mere pass he nahin mere documents, ghar par he, soft copies he mere pass, if you want then I will send it you.
She has not expected such counter attack from my side. Girl’s father intervened and said
Father: Arey nahin, uski koi zaroorat nahin he, ye to bas aise hi pooch liya.
Me: Oh achha!!
On my such kind of reaction her facial expression was very serious as if she wanted to walkout from my apartment. She bent her head towards left, leaned forward and in a Sarkar Raj style she asked me
From her this kind of expression I sensed that she is going to ask another ajeeb question.
The Lady: College me padhai k alawa kuch aur bhi kiya he ya nahin?
“Kuch aur bhi”… there are various meanings of “Kuch aur bhi” in college life. Which one she wants to know so I asked her
Me: Sorry, aunty main kuch samjha nahin.
The Lady: mera matlab sirf padhai hi karte the ya kisi sports, extracurricular activities me bhi involved the?
Me: Sports me to nahin but haan extracurricular activities me involve tha.
The Lady: (with a small fake smile on her face) ok, kis type ki activities?
Me: mmm…. Like watching movies, playing network based computer games on desktop, getting involved in long night discussions (B*kch**i), raat ko khoke pe jaa kar Anda parantha khana and chai peena aur college ke management ko galiyan dena. Actually, I didn’t say all this. Well, I was involved in organizing various kind of technical fest in college and I was also the founder member of our College’s first computer society “CONATUS”.
The discussion shifted from education to general life, she asked me various things about our style of living i.e. how we (me and my cousin) are managing our food, how do we commute, what we do once we get to home after office and one more interesting question
The Lady: aap log apne kapde kaise dhote ho? I mean maid he ya apne aap?
Me: Ji maid ko humne hta diya as she has spoiled some of our good shirts and Ts so apne app.
The Lady: (With her mouth open wide) Apne aap, kaise haathon se?
Me: No, not at all, we have our own washing machine so we use it.
The Lady: Ok, so, shaadi ke baad kaun kapde dhoyega, aap ya aap apni wife se kahoge?
I was losing my temper on such stupid questions, I decided that I won’t be answering this question diplomatically
Me: Aunty, ye to situation pe depend karega, agar meri wife is out for some work and kapde dhone ki zaroorat he to main hi dho dunga, isme koi male ego waali baat to he nahin. Abhi bhi main hi dhota hoon aur jaise time k according requirement hogi waise dono kar lenge. Aisa to he nahin ki I will always ask her to do the clothes, hum ek padhe likhe samajhdar log he and hum jaante he ki mil baat kar kaam karne se time bhi save ho jaata he and enjoyment alag hota he. Wo to pehle ki baat thi jab har kaam ghar ki lady ko hi karna hota, mere khyaal se ab aisa nahin, jab dono husband and wife working he to dono ko mutual understanding se saare kaam karte hein.
Auntyji to thodi der k liye chup ho gayi. Girl’s father sensed that it is not going well and I am getting irritated with such questions so he broke the silence
Father: haan beta ye to sahi kha aapne.Aisa hi hona chahiye, dono me se agar koi naraaz bhi ho jaye to doosre partner ko musky maar kar use mana bhi lena chahiye.
He kept down his soft drink glass on table and asked his lady
Father: I think hume ab chalna chahiye.
She nodded in agreement and they left the apartment. I was sure that by seeing my khadoos attitude they are not going to proceed and I also wanted this.
