rishta boy if he knew that this is how arranged marriage is done nowadays. And considerably less so if he had been keeping track of how much leeway is doled out to continue classifying boys as “suitable".At the end of this conversation, he correctly blamed his parents and himself for not tuning in to family gossip.
Which is ironic, since his was the first piece of harmless, jolly gossip I had heard in weeks. I should have fallen upon it like manna from heaven instead of lecturing him.During the pandemic, it is not just the quality of mercy that is strained, it’s also the quality of rumours.