The wedding season

The grand spectacle of the Indian wedding season is here. Just when you thought you could peacefully transition from Holi and Sankranti to summer, the floodgates open — lavish invitations arrive in golden envelopes, WhatsApp groups start buzzing with blurry PDFs, and distant relatives you haven't spoken to in years suddenly want you to be a part of their special day.

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The wedding invitation is less of an invite and more of a legal contract — one that emotionally binds you into spending a day pretending to be overjoyed for people you have only heard the name of. If you try to avoid it, prepare for guilt-tripping tactics. “They came to your brother's wedding; how will it look if we don’t go?” Your arguments about scheduling conflicts will be dismissed with a single line — “The company won't shut down, if you skip the office for one day.”