The elder daughter (Ramaa) of my younger brother (Ramchandra who we all call “Ramu”) got married at Bangalore on 20th May 2011 to Prasad. We went for the wedding. It was a grand affair – Ramu believes in doing things in style. After a long time we met the parents of Raji (Ramu’s wife). They are both over 80 and still active and taking good care of themselves! They stay at Vizag and run an Ashram there.
Prasad’s father works in KSRTC and still has 2 years to go before retirement. They are from Belgaum. Prasad was 2 years senior to Ramaa when they were both studying engineering. They know one another from that time, and decided to get married.
The purohit was Manjunath Bhat, who was also the priest who conducted the marriage of my son Chandan with his sweetheart Lekha. This fellow is a real expert – you should see the way he chants the mantras and conducts the pumas – a real “vidwan” or learned man!
Ratna loves to attend weddings, as it gives her a chance to wear gorgeous silk sarees and deck up in her gold jewelry! Chandan and Lekha also came, and were probably the smartest couple there!
Ragini, Ramaa’s younger sister, was looking smart in a blue ghagra-choli. Weddings like this give us an opportunity to meet relatives who we have not met in a long time. vijay a (my cousin who grew up with us) was there, with her husband Murali and their children Pooja and Gaurav. Pooja has completed her engineering and is going to start work shortly. Gaurav had completed his PUC and is now a bit confused – he is thinking of skipping one year and trying for IIT.
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