“Professionally qualified working girl for Gaur Brahmin boy BE(E&C) pursuing MBA, Working MNC New Delhi earning Rs.6.5 Lacs p.a. 29yrs/6ft tall contact 01234567″
Jhumki sighed as her mother read out these details of a prospective husband from a matrimonial advertisement. Ever since she had finished her graduation or rather even before that, her entire extended family had only one thing on their mind. A groom for Jhumki!
It was only her parents to start with then bit by bit her grandparents joined in followed by her uncles and aunts, then came the neighbours and now it seemed the whole of India was actively looking for a prospective groom!!
In her mind she could see a vivid picture of the news channels, billboards and radio broadcasting that “Jhumki was eligible for marriage”
Her reverie was broken with her mum asking her what she thought of the aforementioned boy. She replied “uh-huh” and went off to the garden to have sometime to herself. Sitting in the garden she blamed the British for all her current problems. She wished she was born in an India of pre-British era. Thinking of this she dozed off in the garden chair.
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Birds silhouetted against a setting sun, and two lovers underneath the peepal tree!! On a closer look it is Jhumki!! She looks quite different dressed seductively in a saree.
Jhumki, ” My dear let’s get married soon. I can’t bear to spend much time away from you”
Boy,“I wish, but, my parents won’t accept you. My parents are up-righteous and wouldn’t accept a girl from out of our caste.”
Jhumki, “but but…we still can, of course not the prajapati vivah (marriage) but the gandharva vivah (a live-in relationship not requiring consent of parents and considered legally the same as marriage). we can do the gandharva vivah!”
A loud boom woke her up from her day-dreams. A cat had jumped on a flower pot upsetting it and shattering her dreams.
“Yeah! blame the Brits!! they had to come n conquer us, put restrictions on our dressing, our cultures and then go back to their nation. yeah you got your live-in relationships and you leave us stuck here with not even a love marriage but arranged marriages!! Sheesh!”
Then and there Jhumki made a promise to herself I will have a love marriage and to a guy I want to marry not a arranged marriage. “And Oh!! If I find a Brit, I shall give him a piece of my mind”
This is a guest post by Shailee.
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hey!! u posted it! ((hugs)) thanks !
Holy Jesus, guys, get a room! Get two, for all I care!
Great, story, though.
@TacticalSniper
Edward should be careful, it sounds like Shailee will trick him into going to India only to “give him a piece of [her] mind!”
Jumki’s thoughts are analogous to the author’s I guess!
Blaming the British for the restrictions imposed kinda intrigues me! This is one viewpoint I have never heard or come across before! Is the author biased? 
The author is biased in favour of Brits!
Awww, that is a nice story. I imagine I’m going to be in the same situation a few years from now.