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Good evening everybody. In case you are wondering, we are gathered today to commemorate the matrimony of our daughter Tania and the new addition to the family, our son-in-law, Durgesh. This sounds like the flight attendant announcing over the speaker that we are seated on flight so-and-so to wherever after the extensive checking at the counter, immigration, departure hall, blah, blah. I am waiting for someone, just one day, to jump out yelling, "damn, I'm on the wrong flight!" Firstly I would like to extend a big welcome to the Ahirwar family from Jabalpur. Also to friends and relatives from near and far. Family members have no choice, there have to be present here today. Life used to be much easier those days. Tarzan saw Jane, and he said, 'I, Tarzan, you Jane!' And they started a family. Then the young men had to kidnap their brides. They had to ride on horseback and kidnap a girl they fancied in the cloak of the dark and ride with their bride into the night. An...

Sometimes when you tell something which is good cum advice to people, it is often taken in the wrong sense even if the teller does it with a pure heart and pure of intentions. In fact, it may be construed as meddling, being jealous or being just simply irritating. You will soon make it to their list of people who they dislike or just blocked on Facebook! Swami Nithyananda the Holy Scandalous Only when someone draped in saffron robe tells them the same thing in a different tone and laced with pseudo-religious words do they do see the light. Or if a shrink, who blames your deprived inner childhood sexual desires for everything from short stature to inability to prosper in your life, dittos your advice. Take home message is just keep your mouth shut. Everybody already knows everything. It is all stacked up inside their memory bank. It needs someone of authority or commands respect to open their inner eye or knock some sense into them. Being the good friend or human being that you wan...