A Wedding in the Family

December 2018, I got a chance to play the Father of the Bride, again! Once before, at a Church wedding in Jamshedpur, I gave away the bride to a friend from Bhubaneswar. This time, it was in Sangli at a traditional Maharastrian wedding of a daughter of our extended family. An emotional moment for all of us, and fun too, as the pictures below depict. And since the couple live in Pune now, we are not sad either!

 DDLJ (top).. and dressing up (below). Shrirang and Shweta.

 Mehendi laga ke rakhna. (above), and serious stuff, involving both parents of both sides (below).

 Solemnity with some fun thrown in (above), and stage presence (below)

 Wedding finery, and not just for the bride..above and below.

 Traditonal feeding- a promise of sorts to continue? (above)
Le jayenge, le jayenge, dilwale dulhaniya le jayenge.. and she doesn't seem to mind at all. (below)

Ghaati English

Ghaati English

Ghaatis (Maharashtrians) using angrezi are prone to some ‘Phamous’ mispronunciations and misuses and ‘lost in translation’ stuff, like all our bhai-behens around the country that is Bharat.

'Pen' is pronounced pain, and 'Bread', Braid.

‘What’ is pronounced with an emphasis on the WH. Same with ‘Whaay’.

‘Ready’ is usually Raidy. ‘For’ can become Phor, and ‘is’ borders on ij or iz, like in the middle of pizza.

‘Journalism’ is pronounced Jour ‘na’ (as in nag) lism, and computer is usually pronounced ‘Comp’ (as in romp) uter.

‘Exam’ is generally eggzhaam.

These are observations born of being part-Ghaati, but being in a situation where I lived away most of my life. By the way, I want to protest that there aren’t any good ghaati jokes on the net. I tried searching for them, not too successfully.