The great pre-wedding iq test

In ye olde days marriages were suspected to be made in heaven. Horoscopes were matched and it was ascertained whether Saturn or Mars hadn’t trespassed into someone else’s house instead of remaining in their own. The girl was then paraded before the boy’s family like some bovine and the boy’s views were asked. (girls views didn’t matter in that golden age) and if the boy said okay the marriage was fixed between the two families.(Yes more between families and less between bride and groom). It is more about offloading your daughter on someone than about finding a good life partner for her.

Alas, look how things hav changed. In this evil dark age of Kali Yuga.Girls are calling the shots. Hello! moral police! Are you there?


Take this case of a a girl from Agra who booted out her groom just before she took seven steps around the fire with her because at the last moment she decided to set him an IQ test and he flunked badly.

She said “I won’t” instead of “I do” when the chap failed to perform what she thought were some quite simple tasks, according to today’s Times of India.
The girl smelt a rat, no an entire pack of rats when the hubby wannabe faltered while chanting the mantras. The guy had been touted as a graduate but the wrestling with mantras had aroused her suspicion.

So she asked him to call her on her mobile number. But the groom fumbled with the mobile. The girl’s suspicions were aroused over the claim of the groom’s family that he was a graduate. She challangd him to an IQ test and his family accepted it
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The girl gave the groom some coins . asked him to total their value. But he failed. Then she gave him her touch screen phone but the apps overwhelmed him and she showed him the door
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Now the groom has my full sympathy. What kind of test is that? Is ability to recite mantras at the wedding , adding the value of coins and ability to handle a mobile phone a sign of a person’s intelligence? And I heave a big sign of relief that I got married before the mobile revolution started.

Why should anyone smell something fishy if the groom is having trouble chanting mantras? I know guys with pretty high IQs who wrestle with Sanskrit words as if in a WWF bout. I know one highly intelligent worthy despite repeated attempts by the priest chants a mantra which goes something like adyacha mrudaya (whatever that gibberish means) tried to put sense into that Mrudaya by chanting it as madaya (idiot for the Tamil challenged). I am sure the priest had a sneaking suspicion that this guy was calling him names but kept mum so that he could collect his hefty fee.

As for mobiles lot of intelligent people fumble with them. If the girls I had met while scouting for a bride had tested my ability to send SMSes. I would have remained a bachelor until now. My ability to handle mobiles is limited to receiving calls, making calls on the numbers in the mobile’s directory (I have problems dialling numbers on the mobile. They somehow don’t connect when I dial). My mobile is mainly used for storing music. If you want to have a telephonic conversation with me kindly contact me on the landline. As for apps I had long believed that it was the pet name for appalam (Tamil for papad).


Touch screen!!!!!!!!!!! I don’t believe in untouchability but these gizmos are untouchable for me. Give me my old fashioned Nokia anytime in which you have to painfully press buttons for every goddamn thing. If I touch the screen of an ultra latest mobile all sort of horrific things happen. Not just mobile but someone had the bright idea of gifting me a notepad (Or is it notebook? -not the one made of paper and cardboard but unfortunately the gizmo), when I won a literary competition (What is wrong with medals and plaques these days?). After I had several misadventures with its touchscreen my daughter handles it deftly now.


The moral of the story is one should marry in time and not wait until the telecom revolution takes another great leap forward. Otherwise even if you are a super genius the chances are that you would flunk an IQ test by some suspicious bride if you are not able to race along with that revolution and a big question mark would mar your IQ.

 

Shyamala things are moving I wont rule out that possibilit.

 

Viji true. Girls prefer their independence to being tied up in a marriage. Nowadays with couples pursuing their careers marriage often goes for a toss, Girls are also uneasy about increasingly unstable relationship within marriages. So they are very wary about tying the knot.

 

Vaidehi arranged or love marriages both have an eq​al chance of success or failure. It all depends on the parties involved. That your marriage worked despite the fact that you knew very little about each other before marriage speaks a lot for both of you.

 

The fault also lies with the girl's family that they agreed to the marriage without checking the antecedents of the groom and inquiring about him from his neighbours friends etc.It is surprising that a girl who was intelligent enough to test the groom's intelligence agreed to the marriage without really knowing about him until she sat with him in the mandap. True there was no courtship . But this is not urban middle/upper class India but the backwaters of Uttar Pradeshj.