A wedding feast

I’ve finally attended a wedding reception at Palace Grounds. Growing up in Bangalore, it was a known thing that if anyone gott married there, they must be very well off and it was definitely going to be a big affair! A friend of ours got married earlier this week and the reception was held there. We entered the humungous sheltered stall they had made for the reception party. It was decorated with flowers and colourful ribbons. The 3 sides of this makeshift hall were lined with food. The one side in the front was of course the dias for the bride n groom. There were very comfortable chairs put up right in front of the dias for guests to sit. Behind the few rows of this seating, were a lots of dining table and chairs. The table had one accessory:a nice, big white candle in a glass container. (Though I couldn’t understand why that was needed since none of the candle flames were burning due to the fans which on at full speed!). Right next to the dias in one corner was a smaller dias on which a music band were singing all the old and new popular numbers from Hindi and Kannada cinema. The only thing missing was a dance floor (and I think this was due to the fact that the reception was hosted by a south indian family, dances are not so  big here)

Being in a crowd

Has it ever happened that you are in a house full of people and yet you feel entirely alone? Where you see people all around that you are aquainted with, but don’t want to go up to even a single person and make conversation…the more you are with all of them, the more you want to stay away from them…you just don’t relate to any ideas being exchanged there. All you can think of is solitude. And maybe a book for company. Rather let the book talk to you…