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What Will People Say, Now That They Can Screenshot It
A daughter is well, working, and on a small daily tablet. Her family is arranging her marriage. There is a question of what to mention.
Society · · 10 min readLog kya kahenge.
What will people say. Asked in every Indian language, of every generation, usually as the final word
The boy’s family is coming on Sunday at four. In a flat in Nagpur, preparations are well advanced. The good crockery is down. A cousin has been told not to bring her husband, who talks. The biodata, which went out in July, describes Pallavi as twenty-eight, five foot four, M.Tech., working with a multinational in Pune, fair, homely and well-settled, fond of reading and travel. All of it is accurate.
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