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Living after pause.

Morning of this city begins with Sound of brooms’ friction with floors, streets, woman cleaning the roads with water. Men return from morning walk-giggling and gossiping and discussing politics. The morning two tier cities are still patriarchal .Because women do the chores and men go for healthy morning walks and they don’t take their wives along with them, because  then who will do the cleaning of the houses ,who will prepare the breakfast? The sound of birds, the glow of morning sun loses their sheen in midst of all this, here women will not go for morning walk, do yoga, take medicines or drink milk till they fail to wake up in the morning to prepare breakfast, or fall ill and doctor instructs them to do so. Mr Rajneesh is one such man living in the two-tier north Indian city which is hoping to get its first metro (in how many years, nobody knows).He wakes up every morning at 7:30,his wife serves him bed tea, till he goes to loo to relive himself, he will keep sipping tea and hi

What is the market rate of grooms this wedding season?

Since childhood wedding ceremonies have made me unhappy, frustrated and depressed. I never liked attending them, as I was lazy about grooming myself. With my age, the aversion and exasperation has grown too but for other reasons. Over the years the way marriages are conducted in India have changed drastically. Ceremonies have become capitalist in nature with fat pompous and ugly display of wealth and prosperity. Country that still struggles to feed, educate or give quality life to its majority of the citizens, looks ridiculous when celebrates the marriages with such lavishness. Marriages in India are anti development because of following reasons-dowry is one of the strongest reasons amongst all; it fosters and deepens the caste system, vulgar display of wealth and of course the fashion parade. Just for one night affair entire life’s savings are wasted, and who can afford to waste, those who have access. Those who don’t possess they are marred by excess competition in the mark