WB&G (Wanted Brides and Grooms)

Sunday afternoons are for browsing through the newspapers and the one section that is the least morbid and also affords me some amusement is the matrimonial one.

In part it is like a crossword/puzzle page...you need to be savvy to decipher the ads!!

For example savor this…..

sm4 b’ful e’lyed girl:

I mulled over the sm4 and realized it is ‘suitable match for beautiful employed..’……

PQM …

Professionally qualified match!!!!

NRBrah and NRNBrah

non- resident Brahmin… …non- resident non Brahmin!!

PASI

I am still struggling with that one…

3LPA ….

3 lakhs per annum!!

There are some Ads which ask for responses only from ’Status Family only’…whatever that means. Some other phrases which occur consistently are “caste no bar”…”sub caste no bar”….

Read one wanting a groom…the last line said ‘willing to settle in Australia’…I guess this is in today’s context of violence there…this indicates desperation!!……The Australian authorities need to take notice…

Maybe we need a matrimonial lexicon….Somebody enterprising please note