MY COST IS 25 LAKHS

Final year of my engineering degree and one small sentence shakes me from within!!
Supposedly a naked and open truth. I do not intend to name the person who told me this nor the place from where he comes from but all I want to put emphasis is on the thought process.

Some people are so aware of the purpose for which they pursue something.

• Get an engineering degree and your rate is somewhere close to 10 to 15 lakhs*.
• Get an engineering degree with a placement in a good company and you are proud enough to admit that your cost is 25 lakhs.*
(* conditions apply-How the girl looks ?)

Supposedly the market value –oh I guess I forgot to mention the market.
• Buyers – The Girls’ family
• Entrepreneurs – The Boys’ family
• Product – The Engineer Boy (preferably with a placement)

The Buyers-

Boy oh boy
There is always this hue and cry when a child is born in the family.
Girl oh girl
There is a lot of planning to be done!

The calculation starts right away. Her expenses, education, how much are they going to save for her every month so that the contribution can be made to the savings account where the money is being collected for matching the price of the product.
The girl child is bought up with a theory “One day you shall leave this place and go to the product’s house.” Her say in these matters is absolutely no say!!!!

The Entrepreneurs-

Boy oh boy
And it always is boy oh boy...
He is groomed; he is given all the intelligence in the world after all he is the khazana
He has a say in everything, he has the right to do anything, he is sent for higher studies
All his deeds are overlooked and covered up; After all he is the khazana!!!!

The product-

This is one market where you actually know that your product cannot fail. A market where you know that you’ll get the value for what you have sown for so long.
Yes the boy has the rights to do absolutely anything in this world, just because he is the khazana!!

Isn’t it an amazing business venture for the next 25 years to actually reproduce a child and try hard that he turns out into a boy, spend on him coz after all he’ll take care in the future, he’ll be the khazana!!!

We may argue that our nation is developing, we may say that mind set of the people is changing, but this is the under the bed sheet truth of a majority of the Indian families. Even though it might not be to this extent in some, but the mind of every parent does bother about such a situation. We have grown out of this system, earlier it prevailed everywhere now it is a crime, but then things are still done in the name of goodwill.
The female pays the price of her life and her family pays the price of her debt. The guys on the other hand are on a joy ride. Firstly they choose which girl they would marry, secondly there is bargaining for him and thirdly he enjoys his life.

Selfish!
Earlier they were selfish openly and now they are veiled. The process starts from an elementary level where a few toil hard to get across higher institutions for further studies while the others do family planning it’s all what they are taught from the beginning !
“You are the Prince of our family”

It is like a fungus deteriorating the society form within where it all becomes stale and disgusting for a few and a matter of exploitation for the others.

People may not agree with what I mentioned here but the underlying truth remains as it is. They may say that they aren’t like that but somewhere down the line they encounter the same situation in some way or the other. All we need is respect, understanding and an option which one should give to the other person to live rather than wiping tears and wondering why the person even lived.