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Highly ostentatious
marriage functions
are no more than a
mere financial
extravaganza

             About the author                                    Preamble

                        FIII, FIISA, D.Litt, IRDA-Accredited     Of late, we have been experiencing the highly-ostentatious
                        Surveyor & Loss Assessor, Consumer Law,  marriage functions whether in BANQUET HALLS or the open
                        Translator, Writer, Albert Schweitzer    FARM HOUSES both within the cities and their outskirts. The
                        Awardee.                                 author being a highly-societally conscious citizen, besides
                                                                 an academic in several core competences would like to take
                        Our Veteran Author and Resident Editor   the present opportunity to highlight the pros and cons of
                                                                 the aforesaid title of marriage celebrations taking place
                        Dr. Madhok is an eminent person with     within the metro and the country sides, as below:-
Dr. K. L. Madhok versatile knowledge in the field of             1. The highly affluent families have no formulated the

                        Insurance and other matters. He is also       custom to celebrate marriages either in the closed
an academician and received several awards from Inland                banquet halls or in the open Farm Houses sprawling
and abroad. He is expert in foreign languages, e.g.                   over a large area. The old convention of holding the
German, French, Italian, Russian, Swahili, Urdu (Jamia                marriage celebration activities within the close prox-
Millia Islamia) and Anjuman Taraqqui Urdu (Hindi,                     imity of their residences have been given a go - bye.
Persian (Iran Cultural House). He is also a Professional-
cum Social writers, having authored 500 plus articles,           2. Now the situations have completely changed. It has
book reviews and a compendium of Essays. He is                        become a norm to celebrate the marriage event on a
associated with many societies as member in different                 lavish scale both in terms of guests, a host of food items
capacities.                                                           numbering around 40-50, besides continuous snacking
                                                                      and drinks, through the intake of which the guests
We wish Dr. Madhok a long purposeful and healthy life to
serve the society.

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

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