tadipatri or highwater.......of indian summers n indian wedding

India, my dear friends, to the phoren crowd is all about colors,chicken tikka,naked mendicants with their magic....the hot summer and THE WEDDINGS......
Indian weddings are occasions so vibrant and so captivating that sometimes i wonder.....why do we ape the phoren ones [in movies...] at all?????Young as my laaife may be,I remember each n every wedding ceremony that i attended vividly,and the diversities in each culture only adds up to the spice.
The baraat...the drums...the tuni lights...the welcoming...the grand reception of the groom...the beautiful people[read whimmen...wink wink...],the well dressed,the nattily dressed,the overdressed[not to mention the under dressed!!!]....some adorned with gold and precious stones...others decked like christmas trees....the food....the fights between the two parties.....the hours long ceremonies......the mantras......the FOOOODDD….heavens I cud go on and on for eons !!!!....




THE DATE: somewhere in the last week of april
THE SITUATION: tense.....the university exams are about to end....the subject evryun thought wud be a breeze, forensic medicine, turned out to be the typhoon made of our worst night mares....
THE MOOD: straight outta the godfather where theres no news about Luca, Hagen...and Papas been shot....."man...we gotta mug up IPC sections line by line for extra brownie points"...said the smart alec of the batch[and was met with murderous glances and so he decided to shut]
All of a sudden Nag rushed into the room.....stumbled and fell down wid a loud thud....got up wid equal zest and jumped on the bed and started givin bear hugs to everyun....and to some...he followed it up with kisses....!!!

“GET….AWAY….GEROFF……!!!!”,shouted Emp. “Toxicology’s bad enuff….i certainly don’t wanna add up the ­ ignominy of being mushied by you !”. “So wassup Nag??” I asked him. “Why so kisserious?”[yes im a joker fan]…….but he just wouldn’t reply……just kept huggin……..and finally when we did manage to wrestle him down….we realized he had his eyes were moist !! “ Nag…wats wrong….??” We asked of him. “ mah sis……mah sis……[sniff]……shes getting married…..!!! mates mah sis ‘ marriage has been fixed……!!! Ooooooooo yeeeaaaaaahhh……” . “AAAAAAAWWWWWSSSSUMMM………..yeeaaaahh….congrats…..congrats………….kick him kick him….oye NAGS DIDIS GETTING MARRRIED”…….was all that u cud hear ….and in that din….everybody forgot that forensic medicine and toxicology were subjects in M.B.B.S………

The exam went off well, I must say……God musta taken pity n set an easy paper. The excitement then reached a new cocainesque high…everybody began to look forward to the big day, may 10^th, the day Nag’s sis wud start a new life……