Arranged Marriage tamasha starts for me!!

Hi All,

Welcome to my blog. As it happens to every young brahmin boy, it happened to me as well.

One fine morning, my Brahmin parents landed in their Brahmin son's apartment in Bangalore. My 26th birthday had just passed and I was prime and ripe for tying the knot, or thats what they believed.

Before getting into the details, let me tell you something about me.

I am not your typical clean shaven, fair, US returned, carnatic music loving mama's boy from Mylaopre agraharam. But i am indeed a typical Brahmin boy....I am a meat eating, Old rum drinking, party going, no gayathri sollifying iyengar boy who wears the poonal out of respect for his father and nothing else..

Back to my apartment in Bangalore..

My mom started thus.

Mom:"ennada thaniya apartmentla thangaradhu bore adikkaradha?"

I:"Adhellam onnum illaye ma. Naan inga jaaliya thaan irukken. Pona vaaram kooda en schoolmate marriage poittu vandhen."

Mom:"Avalukkellam kalyanam aaradhu. Unakkum kalyanam panna vendama. Nee eththana naal dhaan thaniya samaichindu iruppe?"

Is she hinting at getting a maid and a cook for me??!!

Not that i am not desperate for marriage!!!. But i had jus broken up with my Non Tamil, Non brahmin, Non south indian girlfriend..(Actually I was dumped very badly. I need more rounds of whiskey to recuperate and recover..). I had to tie all the loose knots about my past so that i appear a good boy in front all the stake holders (maamas, maamis, thatha, kollu thatha, ellu thatha, athimber, sambar etc etc...)

Obviously I am gonna be honest with my wife-to-be wherever she is...

I will be updating this blog with all the happenings in this crazy world of brahmin arranged marriages where maamis and horrorscopes matter more than anything else.