Big Fat Indian wedding!!!

Shall we proud of it???

Does it really gives momentum to our economy? or it is just a shameless display of opulence by few rich people who seldom care for anybody.

Is it justified where half of the population does not get two meals a day? I was reading an article on yahoo which was giving the details of costliest shaadis in India.The  top most name was of Sahara Group Head spending whopping 500 cr on his son's marriage.It is such an irony that he does not have money to pay to poor people who were investing in his Company for their rainy days.

The other name was of Amitabh bachchan's Daughter's marriage......spending crores of money just for a marriage.People adore him look up to him especially for values and this is the message which he is passing on to society that spending huge money on daughter's marriage is OK in fact very important...it is how a father should do..... if one can afford or arrange  money(through loans etc) if one cannot afford after all it is Daughter's marriage....TYPICAL ORTHODOX  THOUGHT............. which is certainly not Indian!!!

Just happened to visit a middle class wedding (I also belong to this class) wherein the bride's father spent 15 lacs on marriage out of his voluntary retirement corpus of 40 lacs. He is just 55 years old.God only knows how  will he manage when inflation is so high and he's got one son who is studying in college. Since, he was working for a private firm, he did not have any pension scheme. So, he spent about 40% of his retirement corpus on marriage.The reason being social pressures...which is at times unavoidable......And our so called leaders, businessmen are altogether following this custom instead of other way round.They have luxuriousness of avoiding social pressures and creating new customs (rather old one..Indian one...simple living) which may be followed by millions.

SO LET ALL NOT TAKE PRIDE IN THESE KINDS OF BIG FAT INDIAN WEDDING AND DISCOURAGE THIS WHEREVER WE GO.