Hey! I was at a girls do today and guess what we discovered everyone has a cousin, brother, sister or friend marrying from another state. It's a no brainer to guess that all the concerned parties work for BPOs and love has bloomed it seems.

Staunch Marathis are marrying Biharis equally staunch and Panjabis to Malyalees and Bengalis to Telugus. Ok this happens all the time in cities but the difference is that most of these new inductees are smalltowners tasting freedom and love.

Kudos to these adventurous ones who are in their own way erasing lines drawn by years of blind belief. Great fun are the weddings too I recently attended a mixed ceremony marriage where the Tamilian bride married a pahadi lad with a sword in his hand and the saath pheres in his custom were translated in English for the bride's people.

It was hilarious in English eg. You will look upon other women as your sisters and you will give your wife all your money and she will obey you etc etc had all couples present rolloing their eyes at their respective partners. It was different and enjoyable.

Needless to say it was  everywhere - now isn't that real national integration?