Delhi Girls – To Marry Or Just A GF Gimmick?

Humiliating enigma faced by big city lasses. By Kalpna Gupta

- Kalpna Gupta

Knots are tied up there in heaven,” said my mother to me during a lazy summer afternoon as the consequence of watching the movie Rab Ne Bna di Jodi. I questioned to myself about the mandatory social construct of getting happily married till the age of 25.

Happily married? Isn’t it an oxymoronic phrase? I laughed the thought away in the cool breeze of my air-conditioned room.

Like the software gets updated in our techno world, similarly, the youth has started updating the relationships as well. Having a girl friend or a boy friend is not only related to feelings anymore. Rather it has become a fashion.

And mind you, if you aren’t updating your girl friend or a boy friend in time, you are titled as belonging to an old school of thought. More precisely, an old soul. After all, who likes to be called as an outdated version! An update is mandatory.

During the last decade, the face of the metropolitan cities has been artificially beautified which is further appreciated or ridiculed, depending upon the mood and the need by the intelligentsia of our country. Take, for example, the Delhi Metro.

We all have noticed the arousing fragrances, the technical gadgets (most updated to be mentioned here), the trendy clothes and the skimpy dresses carried by the girls of Delhi. The jaw-dropping faces of our dear men must have been noticed by all of us. The software gets updated; you see!

As a well-known fact, it is very much into our knowledge zone that Delhi has the highest share of interstate migrants. For instance, Uttar Pradesh is home to 17 percent of India’s population, but nearly half of Delhi’s migrant population is from the state.