Rads wedding date has been decided on! Finally! 27th April is the mubarak occasion. The wedding will be in Gurgaon so I will shirk away from all duty to hang around with my friends! Well done Rads! Rads, btw would be in Delhi for a week sometime in Feb to do all her shaadi shopping. Anybody wanting to finish theirs well before the wedding may contact Rads and tag along, though I have a feeling such person's shopping would largely be pushed in the background.
Also, I am wondering if Rads can manage to defeat our dear Aussie cousin Punni's shopping madness in Delhi. The said event occurred early this year when Punni left her kids with her Mom back home and went crazy in Delhi for what we know as a shopping marathon. When she got back from Delhi, her room had so many shoes, it resembled gurudwara-stairs!
Opinions welcome.
Saturday, December 27, 2008
Monday, December 8, 2008
Saree-pool
Public memory is short. The women in my family are encashing on this fact quite nicely by forming a saree-pool. Escalating prices and an economical crunch means that the women in my house do not have the luxury to buy new sarees every so often anymore. They cannot afford to compromise and wear the same sarees to more than 3 occasions and that too when they are spread over a considerable period of time. No sir, what would the other women say? [Dramatic gasp]
So they have formed a central pool of sarees, which is accessible to every female in the family. Here is how this works. The family is obviously spread all over the country. So my mom and aunts here in Doon began with exchanging their sarees with my aunts elsewhere. My mom gets her sisters' sarees and Rads mom and Monu's mom do the same. In return, they give their good sarees to their sisters or sisters-in-law. Now they have a whole pool of new sarees to wear for one season. Next, they trade with my cousins or other female relatives elsewhere.
In case the function is one where all members have to attend, the rule for preference is that the woman who is closest to the couple getting married or their family would get to choose first. That's how it works.
It is incredible to observe how women learn to survive on whatever means are available. And survive in style. Though it is also noteworthy that for one saree, almost every woman in my family- from Dehradun to Ranchi to Kanpur to Panagarh has a blouse ready.
So they have formed a central pool of sarees, which is accessible to every female in the family. Here is how this works. The family is obviously spread all over the country. So my mom and aunts here in Doon began with exchanging their sarees with my aunts elsewhere. My mom gets her sisters' sarees and Rads mom and Monu's mom do the same. In return, they give their good sarees to their sisters or sisters-in-law. Now they have a whole pool of new sarees to wear for one season. Next, they trade with my cousins or other female relatives elsewhere.
In case the function is one where all members have to attend, the rule for preference is that the woman who is closest to the couple getting married or their family would get to choose first. That's how it works.
It is incredible to observe how women learn to survive on whatever means are available. And survive in style. Though it is also noteworthy that for one saree, almost every woman in my family- from Dehradun to Ranchi to Kanpur to Panagarh has a blouse ready.
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