Switch on the TV. Flip over on the couch. Run through channels. Stop on MTV. Splitsvilla is going on. My thought process, quote "Idiotic reality show with girls and guys jumping over each other. Fame and money can make people do anything." Watch for 5 minutes. Switch off the TV. Walk towards the bedroom and think of doing something more useful in life.
Shoot. Those thoughts were not erased off my mind, so soon. Ensuing on those very thoughts, I continued...
Today, Maal, signifies the correspondence of both the stuff which people crave for: Money and Honey.
The living that each one conducts, these days has gone for a toss, with a new routine:
If earlier, it was-
Slog- Work your ass off- Get Paid peanuts- Save however much possible- Arranged marriage in 20's- Build a neo-middle class family by your late 40's.
Now, it's become-
Start working early- Use and Reuse Media- Build contacts- Work for a short period- Centralize Fame and Money around you- Marriage if necessary, or flirting is as healthy.
Kidding.
But, however much Indians deny the fact of dowry and money-inclined marriages, the fact still remains that, unless the boy as well as the girl rake in a good amount of moolhas as their CTC, they hardly stand a chance to woo his/her prospective spouse.
(I mean a well qualified and favored one.)
Well, I don’t. Each individual is concerned about his/ her future which revolves in and around those "saath pheras", then why not make the right choice?
But what disgusts me, is the line, beyond which people are ready to fall these days, in order to claim the plane to attain both, Money and Honey.
So, next time that a guy or a girl comes up to talk to you after checking out your Mercedes A class or your Zara outfit, it is not you who attracts the other person. It is that particular material you own.
Beware. The trap is spread. Period.

