I am a self-styled “Agony Aunt” and “Self Help” Expert – though it is me who is need of “Help”!
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WHY GIRLS WANT TO GET MARRIED versus WHY BOYS WANT TO GET MARRIED
Tongue-in-cheek Musings
By
VIKRAM KARVE
AGONY AUNT
I like playing Agony Aunt.
It is good fun.
I love to talk.
I am a good listener.
Listening to others’ troubles seems to make my own troubles go away.
I love to talk to anyone who wants to talk to me.
Yes, talking to someone who needs comforting seems to make my own troubles go away…!
So I am quite happy when Alka calls up, “Are you free today…? I want to speak to you…”
“Sure,” I say, “in the evening…?”
“After work…?”
“Okay…I’ll wait for you in Polka Dots…at seven…”
At 7 o’clock in the evening I sit in the veranda of Polka Dots Café in Aundh sipping Iced Tea waiting for Alka to arrive.
There she is – Alka gets off her company bus which ferries her from her workplace in the IT Park at Hinjewadi to her chummery in Aundh – and she spots me, waves, walks briskly and sits on the chair opposite me.
“Thanks for coming,” she says.
“You are welcome,” I say, “But first let’s order…then we can talk…”
We order – Fish and Chips for me – and a Chicken Teriyaki for her – and then I say to her: “Tell me...what’s bothering you…?”
“Ashish…” she says, “he wants to do his MBA... ”
“That’s good…”
“I know – I have nothing against his doing MBA – but he wants to postpone our marriage…”
“Oh…”
“We have been seeing each other for seven years now – we have been going around since our first year in engineering college – we had decided to get married the moment we completed our B.Tech. and got a job – that was okay – I was getting much better offers but I joined the same company just to be with him – then he said let us finish our training – then he said let the probation period be over – then he kept dilly dallying. Every time I ask him: “let’s get married” – he says let’s wait and be secure in our careers – and now this MBA bug has bit him – so I said let’s get married and you can do your MBA here in Pune – but he says NO – he wants to go to IIM – concentrate on his CAT – then focus on his MBA studies and come on top of his class…”
The food arrives.
We start eating.
There is silence for a while – and then Alka starts speaking, “How long can we continue like this…? I am almost twenty five now – so he’ll study for CAT for a year – then two more years of MBA –then he will say to me: “let me settle down in my new job” – I feel very insecure in life by his indecision – Isn’t it high time we got married and settled down…?”
“I’ll speak to Ashish…” I say
That night I call Ashish over for a drink at our favourite watering hole in Baner.
I talk about the conversation Alka had with me in Polka Dots and I tell him that Alka is afraid that he is going to dump her.
“Dump her…? What nonsense…? I love her – I want to marry her – but how can I explain? I want to be secure before I marry…” Ashish says.
“Secure…?” I ask.
“You know that a mere B. Tech. degree isn’t enough these days – I barely managed to hold on to by job during the recession. I don’t feel secure in my job. I have to get an MBA from a top-notch institute like IIM – I have to get a good job – I have to do well in my life. That’s why I want to focus on studying for CAT and marriage at this stage will disturb my focus on studies. I must get into an IIM – or at least a top B-School – I will have to study hard – I will have to top the class to get the best placement. I am only twenty five now – there is plenty of time for marriage. I want to feel secure in my career before I make a commitment to marriage so that I can give the best to Alka and our would-be kids…”
So this is the basic marriage dilemma:
A girl wants to get married to feel secure
A boy wants to be secure before getting married
Do you agree with my “patriarchal” chauvinist views?
VIKRAM KARVE
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Posted online by me Vikram Karve earlier in my Academic and Creative Writing Journal Vikram Karve on 07 August 2010
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