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Navneet Mehra
2. How long have you liked her?
a) Less than six months
b) A year
c) More than a year
My mind flicks back. We met in the winter of 2007. I was
nineteen. Which makes it .... my mind does the calculation, OK,
so it’s four years.
So what? Four years are nothing. My father has known my
mom for twenty eight years. Yes, but your mom’s married to him,
says a little voice inside me. Ignoring it, I quickly tick option c.
Fine, next question
3. Can you see yourself getting married to this girl?
a) 100%
b) 50%
c) Zero
Well, that one is easy. It is zero. In fact, I’d say the chances of
marrying her are less than zero. But that’s FINE. I’m perfectly
OK with it.
All right, so in the past I might have thought about it. And
maybe for a moment I would have imagined myself in brown
sherwani and her in a wedding saree, with some ornaments
looking like a perfect Indian Bride. Dancing our first dance under
the “Soni de Nakhre” on DJ. Leaving for our honeymoon to
some hill station.
Coming back, I notice I’ve been absentmindedly making a
heart around a) 100%. Oh…Shit. What did I do that for?
Frustrated, I grab my pen and start scribbling over it furiously. It
is not as if that means anything. I suddenly realize I was pressing
so hard that the page got torn.