Marriages and Extravagances

Marriages and Extravagances

            Marriage of Dinesh’s son is hot talk among the ladies of the coloney nowadays. Marriage of any person is always a matter of discussion among the women, old or young. But this marriage had a strong point of discussion and guessing, the point of cash amount received by Dinesh as dowry. Rather it had been a commonplace talk that Dinesh had been presented a cash of rupees 16 lakhs as dowry. Dinesh, a mender of scooter seats, sofa set car seats etc. his son a B.E. degree holder doing the job of a software engineer in some company, short height man, got such a big amount in dowry, nobody was finding it easy to digest. Of course it is the Indian mentality to talk boastfully of the dowry but this was crossing all the boundaries.  Those who marry their daughter tell the people three four times the actual expenditure occurs. Fathers after the marriage of their sons tell three four times more than what they actually get in dowry. The amount of 16 lakhs is somewhat manifold of what the people were guessing about.  Dinesh has one more son to marry soon within a year or two. Though he has not fixed the marriage anywhere, so the people are guessing that Dinesh wants 16 lakhs or more in the marriage of his second son that’s why he has propagated such a rumor. The man who was hand to mouth till now has become a lakhpati. This is the benefit of being an Indian and the father of sons. And by the grace of God if the sons acquire good education, one can live his life lavishly on the money earned by his son’s in-laws.

            On the contrary, father of daughters in India is doomed fated. His earnings are not for him. Most of the part of his earnings has to be given in dowry of his daughter’s marriage. That’s why people in India do not want female child and this is the sole reason for female foeticide.