Question

You attend a marriage with your family somebody no to you the groom family demand a large amount of money at the last minute and kept a condition that they will break the marriage if their demand is not fulfilled write a diary entry about your feelings in such issue

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Growing up in India, my sister and I used to play a game of, “What would you do if you had 1 lakh rupees?”

One lakh rupees — about $1,500 — to our young minds was an unfathomably large amount that could buy you the entire universe. The game kept our imaginations active during long car rides and power outages. Our answers were always variations of buying a beach bungalow somewhere exotic where there are no power outages or buying a really fast car.

One day, an aunt overheard us playing this game. She suggested that we ought to save the money for our dowries instead of wasting it on “useless things.”

That sucked all the joy out of the game, and we never played it again. Until a few months ago, when I found myself playing it with my husband, Srini, in our house in Seattle.

This time the stakes were higher, the money was not imaginary, and the choices were less glitzy. We were asking ourselves what would we do with half a million dollars. We had to pick between Srini’s dream of us retiring in our 40s and paying my sister-in-law Priya’s dowry.

According to his elaborate calculation, that extra $500,000 in our retirement savings would allow us to retire 12 years from now — five years sooner than otherwise. But those five years would be punctuated with pangs of guilt for having “ruined Priya’s life,” my mother-in-law warned us.

I am against dowry. But I am also not a fan of ruining anyone’s life.

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