Originally posted by: Srijeeta06
@ bold
I live in Delhi, which obviously has impacted my parents a lot especially after the 2012 case.
So they still don’t allow me to travel alone.
They are of the concept that either travel with a friends or later with husband but not alone.
@green
I think we all are.
There is this concept of ‘kanyadaan’ in Hindu marriage.
So few months back I was telling my mom to not do this ritual in my case because firstly it’s quite disrespectful owing to the fact that it seems as if one is giving away a commodity and humans or for that matter any living creature at least is not that.
And secondly, it’s a bad practice that we need to now break through.
Dad argued that it is something which is being practiced for generations, how can we defy it?
@ Bold: My extended family is in Karnal and when we are there we do a lot of back and forth between Delhi (obviously for the airport, but also shopping and my cousin lives in Gurugram so traveling through Delhi). Anyways last time I was there, my grandfather passed away and this was at a time when there were riots going on for some reservation issue. They had blocked roads going to and from Delhi and it was hard to get by. I still remember that even though I wanted to go for my grandfather's last rites as my mother couldn't, both my mamajis refused. They said it wasn't safe and it was true. They were 4 men in the car and yet they were still followed for quite some time by a group of hooligans once they entered Delhi. They came home and said something that still disturbs me to this day - Agar tu hamare saath hoti toh aaj humse koi wapas nahi aaya hota aur tu bahut gandi halat mein milti (they meant something we all understand).
@ Green: I do understand your dad's point though. It's sadly the same perspective we all take. If it ain't broke, why fix it? Or it's always been done like that.
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