Shri S.S.
I doubt, if some of the members could understand the validity in our complaints? There are many many such idiotic rejections from girls side.
I chose not to highlight such funny cases showing the stupidity of selecting the partner by girls and their parents ONLY because, people here would most probably think that I am making up my own stories. Thus, I made it a point and till now refrain from referring to such cases.
Dear Shri Ravi,
Though I have difference with you about the percentage of happy unmarried males, I agree that among our tabras, the grils' side have got the upper hand now and they dictate the terms of the marriage, which is like the mirror image of the position some decades ago when the boys' side used to behave like tyrants and used to dictate every "nut and bolt" of the marriage and also the married life of the girl.
As Smt. Renuka has wisely observed, may be the girls' side is taking maximal advantage of the prevailing "demand & supply" situation of tabra boys in the marriage market and are choosing the best of the best deals they can get.
But one point which I have observed is that the boys and their parents have still not become "really aware" of the ground realities and are hoping (against hope, that is) that at least in their individual case, the fortunes will smile on them and their son so that they will succeed in getting for their son a wife who satisfies the adage:
कार्येषु मन्त्री करणेषु दासी भोज्येषु माता शयनेषु वेश्या ।
धर्मानुकूला क्षमया धरित्री भार्या च षाड्गुण्यवतीह दुर्लभा ॥
kāryeṣu mantrī karaṇeṣu dāsī bhojyeṣu mātā śayaneṣu veśyā |
dharmānukūlā kṣamayā dharitrī bhāryā ca ṣāḍguṇyavatīha durlabhā ||
(She should be like a wise minister [to the king, that is], like a maid-servant or dāsī [in executing the husband's orders/commands], like the husband's mother when it comes to serving him meals, like a very adept prostitute in the bed, [she should be] always on the side of
dharma, should possess patience like mother earth, and such a wife possessing all these six gunas is really scarce.)
I am of the confirmed view that the tabra boys and their parents should completely get out of the above syndrome and get into the marriage market like one carrying merchandise to the village shanty, fully and realistically aware of the fact that their goods or சரக்கு (carakku) has very poor demand, and try to get the best possible sale price, that is the best of the offers which come. Once their son is married, the boys' parents should also be ready to forget about any financial support from him (and this is nothing very inequitable, because our society made the girls' parents to forgo their daughters' earnings, not so long ago and all the money used to be enjoyed by the boys' parents. This is how the great Law of Karma works just as the reservation system has now cornered the brahmins into a tight spot with no escape; when I or somebody else says that this is the accumulated collective Karmaphala of brahmins, it is immediately branded as 'brahmin bashing' and all that. But Karma and Karmaphala is the most powerful forces which even the supreme-most gods imagined by human minds can never overrule.)
If the parents of boys start learning this bitter lesson the earlier the better. Otherwise there will be very many unmarried boys of 50 or even 60 among the tabras, very soon, who are unhappy because they could not taste sex. And there will be equal or more number of married tabras who are unhappy because they got married and have been disappointed due to all their expectations having been dashed to utter ruins and themselves being reduced to the position of lap dogs.