Of rooftops and marriages...
[P.S: This is an over-dramatized version of a real life incident, most of the things have been blown out of proportion, please take the details here with a pinch (or better yet a packet of) salt.] In a time when (almost) everywhere everyone has a girlfriend(s), last weekend I was the firsthand witness of a unique and perhaps dying tradition. The 'chad dekhano'(literal translation 'roof viewing') incident where, in an arranged marriage, the guy and the girl talks to each other personally and finally decide if they want to be hitched (or screwed depending on your POV) for life. It started like this, I was in my friend's house, the lady and her family were there. My friend had passed through all the filters; parents approval, her best friends approval, her grocer's, her maid's, her security guard's, her Rini Masi's and all other important peoples' approvals. Even the astrologer had confirmed that there was no fault in their stars. ...