liquid is solid beedu!!!

That is true when you talk of moolah nowadays. It is the age of commerce in which everything is commoditised. Everything means everything! For example, marriages have also become a novel examples of mergers wherein two smart alecks join forces to empower themselves financially so that they can flex their financial biceps later in life. The trend is not modern. It is rather a pragmatic way to live and is symbiotic too. In short, it is the only 'best' way to live after 30.
It has its antecedents in the ancient days. There was a corporate presentation in the B-school of IIT Delhi in which the ancient example of Draupadi in Mahabharata going for five husbands was taken to add a tinge of humour in the presentation. A classic example of tie-ups! However, we believe that it was taken as a good humoured joke and did not hurt the religious sentiments. And no working professional will love to trigger the debate of creative freedom not being bound by major constraints.
However, gone are the days of a 'kushal' grihani who is 'daksh in grih karya'. After all, what are the maids for? Nowadays, their KRA's extend far beyond the conventional tasks of cooking and baby-sitting. At best, sometimes they are also involved in the decision-making policies at homes. In the worst case scenario, if they are different they can act as concubines. But we have to perceive the glass to be half full. Lives are grey and we have to accept that.
In any case, rampant commercialisation bodes well for the 'maids' sector, which will flourish as India grows from strength to strength and establishes itself as an economic superpower in the decades to come.
Nursing is also an art and almost a gift of God. Munnabhai created a novel way of nursing and it created ripples in Bollywood. Robin Williams was also awesome in setting up an example through 'Patch Adams'. Ergo, it is high time we started giving due cognizance to any domestic help and tried to help ourselves more in our household chores if we got the time for it.

It is raining marriages these days!!!

Just the other day, I got the priviledge to attend a birthday party of a friend's daughter. It was a great culinary adventure for me.
I also served a bit for the friend. I remember something funny happened in the past when a friend of mine joked with us in a baraat dance, "Nancho be nahin to khana nahin milega." However, it is not because of any deja vu that I served a bit. It was spontaneous.
It was certainly an experience of a different kind. To stagemanage is difficult. To manage is even more difficult.
The biggest hurdle in managing everything was the presence of few senile elders who kept on poking noses in the midst of everything. They were not happy with everything being okay. I kept on reiterating that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. When they did not get the due reverence, they waited for any opportunity to say, "abhi to launde hain, musibat fansi to ayenge humare paas". hahaha
Jokes apart, the pair looked like it was made for each other. It was delightful and highly satisfying to see another match all set to journey the roads of life together in happiness and sorrow.

Is marriage an institution?

I get very confused on this. Whether it is a necessary evil or not is the same question to me as whether God exists or not. Both are confusing. You cannot have a definitive stance over it if you are open to subjectivity. For those who are married, it is amost sacreligious to even question the necessity of marriage. I have heard that after an age you tend to seek a partner. I am approaching thirty and societal pressures are abounding. But, I am clueless what to say. Without a rocking job or the mentality to do it, without a healthy lifestyle meant to be compatible for the spouse, without the excessive urge or rather obsession of sexuality, without the longing for a partner and finally without any ambition, I get very confused whether i should go for it and spoil two or more lives in future. With the nature I possess, I would like to die in hunger alone. To initiate a family might become hazardous. A DNA defect again perchance.
When I declare that I do not have the urge to have any materialistic pleasure barring booze and I feel detached, my father comes up that maybe sunbconsciously you need marriage. I get confused on how my subconscious does not reveal like this to me with this kind of certitude. Maybe my dad is correct. But if he is not, few lives will be doomed forever for sure. With due apologies to all the married ones and also to those who strongly believe in the institution of marriage...