Oct 9, 2008

Why the difference in last bullet point ?

  • Jayanthi and Nataraj are best friends from childhood.
  • Both went to same school and mutually helped each other with studies.
  • They joined different top rated engineering colleges.
  • Both joined the same company through respective campus interviews.
  • Surprisingly they worked in same team sitting in adjacent cubes!
Few years later....
  • Jayanthi has to save whatever she earned for gold,silk sarees and 'fat' wedding !
  • Natraj had a 'pretty wife',acres of land,3 bhk flat and a 'Swift' car...
WHY THE DIFFERENCE ???

My humble request to all the girls whose CV is floating in marriage market..
Be brave ! Speak out ! Stop giving Dowry ! Wait for that perfect sensible guy who wants just 'YOU' and not your money ! Because you deserve the best !

2 comments:

Karthik K said...

Raji,

Dowry is a menace, and such a shame..no second thought about it.Period.

But your updates are quite out dated. May be in 80s and the 90s this was true. Things are changing....rapidly and never like before...there is already a prominent wave of thought amidst the educated male generation of the present that asking dowry is a such a shame...to the extent of being a question of self dignity.

Well, if you are targetting the uneducated and backward sector where these thigs may still prevail, I can agree, but blogs don't reach their ears.

But, on the other side, let me tell you that there are increasing number of girls who want to have a life-partner who is financially stable...secured with a heavy wallet and they are quite vocal about it...wat do you call this, a "reverse dowry"..? If a guy wants to marry a rich girl, it is a crime but if a girl wants to marry a rich guy it is a social revolution and a contemporary thought! I hope we don't enter into reverse discrimination. I am not at all a misogynist but this is my thought.

I always wanted to post this comment here but I am all the more motivated now after reading the article below (including the comments):

http://getahead.rediff.com/report/2009/jun/25/they-married-for-money-would-you.htm

Kumar said...

Ha ha. Nice one.