Despite the fact that romantic love is "wholly celebrated" in both
Indian mass media (such as Bollywood) and folklore, arranged marriage continues
to account for an overwhelming majority in India. If you have seen the
Bollywood Movie, "Vivah", each one of us has enjoyed the feeling of
an arranged marriage. I am sharing a small incident from the romantic story of
Raj and Meera who are in a courtship period. Like every other couple of arrange
marriage, they both are unsure about their decision of choosing each other as
partners. In other words, I can say they have just started dating each other.
Er. Raj belongs to an upper-middle-class family and he works in an MNC as a
software engineer. On the other hand, Dr. Meera is working as an intern (as per
the criteria of the final year of college) in a hospital.
So one fine evening, after office hours, Raj offered Meera a
Pani-Puri date. She responded affirmatively but with one condition that she
will come along with her sister and her friends. Raj thought its okay if it is
not a date, he will be happy just to see her.
Raj, Meera, her sister, and her friends met at the Pani-Puri
stall in the evening. Since Raj was new to the group, he was trying to make
himself fit in the group. Raj was listening and enjoying the conversations
of others as it made him nostalgic of his college days, plus he was getting a
bonus to see the smiling face of her beautiful Meera. While they were waiting
for their turn for Pani-Puri, suddenly a voice of slipping of activa was heard
and within a minute many people started to run towards the accident. Some of
the group members also started running toward the accident. Generally, Raj
avoids going to such places. It's not like he doesn't want to help. He feels
that whenever such accidents happen, many people gather around it, one person
says something and another something else, and it becomes chaos. And he does
believe that among them there is already one person present who can do the
needful. If nobody is there to help, then he goes forward. But this time, the
first person running towards the incident was no other than his fiancée Meera.
Raj and the others started walking towards the place and thankfully nobody was
injured severely. There was a lady along with a small girl nearly about 5 years
who was sitting behind her mother. The cause of the imbalanced vehicle was due
to a cow and a calf.
Meera was trying to console the child by holding her in her lap.
Others were looking after the mother and helping her to stand up and look after
the vehicle. Some were asking whether the child suffered any injury. Meera was
trying to get entangled in the talk to ask the child where she was in pain, but
she was crying continuously. The public gradually reduced, Raj did not like to
stand there, so he went somewhere.
Now, at the accident place, Meera, her sister, and their group were present. After some time, the child stopped crying and Meera helps her to come out of her shock. Her sister helped the mother and assured her that her daughter is medically fine. The child stopped crying, but she was still sad which made Meera feel pity for her. The next moment, Meera's sister called Meera and passed a bar of chocolate. As soon as Meera gave the child chocolate, the girl has a very big smile on her face. After seeing the happiness of the child, everyone standing around, smiled and was satisfied. Even the mother felt relieved. She thanked Meera and her friends.
Meera replied, "Your daughter is very lovely."
She kissed the cheeks of the child. Finally, the mother-daughter duo went back
home and they all went back to the Pani puri stall.
"You have something, I have something, and together we complete each other."
Everybody in their life, for a moment they might have such silly but cute feelings for their partner. So I openly welcome the title from the audience as per their situation and what name you can give to share such moments. I will finalize it as per the audience's choice.
