Finally, the right match!

Had got up at a half past 3 in the morning to be on time to board the Pune-bound superfast train, from the Ernakulam south railway station, at a quarter past 5. Mom was awake and it was she who'd given me my wake up call before the alarm had gone off. The morning cycle of routines - that includes a 20' prayer sequence - were gone through and I was in time to board the train thanks to the swift clip by Anup and his autorickshaw, through those 6 kms. I'd taken a day off to be at Kozhikode to be in attendance at the engagement ceremony of my cousin Malu with Rejish.

And there's a sad story that had taken place before this event.

......Almost a year ago, Malu had gone through an engagement ceremony with great fanfare and gaiety. The boy was working as a software engineer at Singapore and everything seemed to be going hunky dory. And then, disaster had struck in the form of the guy suddenly making an unscheduled visit to her at the workplace and was quite demanding in the assigning of her personal time for his sake. He'd felt that something was amiss when she hadn't responded to his phone calls - as per her, at the most inappropriate times(Her parents were much more accommodating on the issue and tried to tell her that she needed to accept her would-be-mate's requirements, but she did not subscribe to that idea. Her stand was that he was too possessive and did not give her her space!) 

To cut the long story short, the engagement was called off and things were discussed with the boy's family and the break up was amicably settled - no tantrums, no ill will, no future interference and above all, no nitpicking as to who's to be blamed for the break up, etc! Both the families stay within the same neighbourhood, you see. Thus an arranged relationship, that had the blessings of both the families, was in tatters even before it could take off due to reasons of incompatibility! 

Apprehensions were expressed as to whether another relationship could be worked out with the condition that the new folks had to be apprised of the previous fiasco! Thankfully, everything did go off well!!

The engagement ceremony took place between 1205 and 1230 h at a banquet hall of the city's prominent hotel, witnessed by a tight bunch of relatives, friends and well wishers and thankfully, devoid of ostentation.


Tailpiece.

The wedding has been scheduled on 31 Oct, this year, at the Guruvayur temple. Here's my small prayer to god that everything goes off well, this time around! Malu simply deserves it!!

And I was back at Kochi before sunset just to be in time for my usual walk in the evening.