Justice For Ketan Agarwal

A recent case has shocked everyone.

A 20-year-old to-be-married, Siya Goyal, plotted and planned with her boyfriend, Chetan Chaudhury, and pushed and killed her fiancé, Ketan Agarwal, from a fort in Pune.

We are extremely sorry to learn about the tragic end of a promising young life.

From the videos shown in news channels, it can be seen how smitten with love the young man Ketan was. He seems to be in love and looking forward to a life with Siya.

Doesn't Siya look equally happy?

A destination wedding had been planned worth crores.

Also, a pre-wedding shoot was scheduled abroad.

Siya Goyal had even taken Rs 1 crore for wedding shopping from her fiancé, Ketan Agarwal.

And handed over the entire amount to her boyfriend, as he was not in a good financial position. The idea was to empower Chetan at Ketan's expense.

Financial irregularity and funds theft was one angle.

Killing her fiancé, Ketan, is quite another level.

And thereafter behaving as if it was just an accident. And even posting on social media and garnering support and earning sympathy!

Wife Jokes

Seeing the title of this post one may feel this is about a wife who jokes.

Rather, this post is about jokes about wives.

I feel sad each time I see wives being ridiculed. Most wives sacrifice their lives for their families. Being "housewives", they are married to the house.

Their husbands are "Pati Pareshwar" for them.

But, do they know what their so-called Gods are up to?

What do those husbands say or do behind their backs?

I came across this on X (Twitter)-

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I see a pretty wife dressed in a yellow saree.

What does the husband claim the AI sees?

She Can Be You Or Me

She leaves her home to stay with her man,

She adopts the new & does the best she can.

She sacrifices her dreams at the drop of a hat,

She accepts all & willingly becomes a doormat.

Source: X (Twitter)

You, Me, And You #UMeUBlogHop

You once professed your deep love for me- 

Believing you, "You & Me" merged as one! 

I accepted your "Team WE" proposal & identity;

Complied with your ideas of intimacy & fun. 

Fought with my upset family; it was you I chose.

Just you in my heart & eyes, I severed all my ties. 

"Till death do us apart", we took our holy vows. 

Our inter-religion marriage would sure win & rise. 

They warned- "All this is a lie, eye-wash, smart plan"-

I was yet another virgin prey for you & your group. 

Promising you my all, I offered myself as your top fan. 

Consumed by your love, I was the flavour in your soup.

I dreamt my life would be an eternal honeymoon-

With you by my side as king, I'd feel like a queen.

My high castles in the air collapsed pretty soon.

You metamorphosed into a beast, unheard & unseen.

I tried to keep my faith, persevere, & to keep pace, 

You & your family forced me into the conversion.

I was simply a prize-trophy, forgotten after the race.

I bore you heirs; you exploited fruits of our relation.

The Smart Suitor

Their horoscopes had matched.  

He had come with his family to see her.

She was on the wheel-chair. 

"I met with an accident last week. I may never be able to walk again..." 

PHOTO PROMPT - Susan Eames

"That’s absolutely fine with me", he said.

He picked her up in his arms. 

"Marry me!" he proposed.

Post-Marital Grief #writebravely

“I didn’t know that you are such a fool!” the newly-wed bride told her husband.

“Why did you marry me?” he asked.

“They told that you are a king and are very rich! You are neither!” she grieved.

Image : Pexels

“You should have talked to me when I had visited your home to see you.”

Dazzling Darling

Jai thought of his first love every moment.

Two decades ago, it was a cold night when he had handed over his sweater to keep her warm.

She looked dazzling in pink.

He had sketched her face on his wall.

The Wedding Singer's Wedding

Ronnie is an industrious and handsome wedding singer.
His melodious voice regales weddings, while he dreams to get his first recording-break.
He puts tremendous effort in his lilting compositions.

PHOTO PROMPT © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields

Tania is getting married secretly.
Ronnie has been assigned the job to sing at her post-wedding party.

What You Don't Know

"Are you sure you have revealed everything to me truthfully?" she asked him gingerly.

Sometimes she felt as if she were a lawyer gathering alibi to present to the judge at a High Court & acquit him of all the false charges!

He laughed as though he had read her mind.

"I told you my side of the story. Now what you don't know can't hurt you", he smartly said, not really satisfying her curiosity.

"Come on, dear. I just wanna know where were you this evening... With whom?...Doing what?" she asked this at one go mustering all the courage she could manage.

She had been at her wit's end trying to reach her husband and his phone was either not reachable or switched off.

She was relieved when he finally rang the door-bell at 11:30 PM, but was upset to be greeted with a strong smell of alcohol.

He had always been a teetotaler...

She thanked her stars that at least he had driven & reached home safely. Then, she remembered that he hadn't taken their car to office that day.

Also, she noticed that he was wearing the same Orange sneakers that a lady colleague named Suhana (whom she despised) had gifted him.

That Touch

When she refused to marry the groom,
As his family demanded dowry that day,
In the marriage-hall there was gloom,
The groom & his family walked away.

Onlookers felt she was being foolish,
Rejecting a groom with high market value!
How to make a bride & her family realize this-
The groom has been groomed to extract his due!

"Now who will marry this girl?" wondered all.
A smart gentleman was promptly on the stage.
He walked up to the bride, cool, confident & tall,
And taking her hand in his, he proposed marriage.

Lost Love

“The A&B Building was made entirely from driftwood.”

Photo Prompt; © 2015, Barbara W. Beacham

But, that wasn't the only thing that was unusual about the A&B Building.

All the couples who had resided in it coincidentally had their names starting with A&B, had fallen in love, got married, and then they drifted apart on fidelity issues.

Photo Prompt : Magpie Tales

On Planet Kizia Together!

Story so far: She agreed to travel with an Alien, who was Just Like Her! and to be his bride as their horoscope matched 100%. 

They boarded the spaceship. There was a crown-wearing ceremony. That was enough to proclaim them as man & wife! He was King and she was Queen and they were going to their Kingdom.

The spaceship started moving at the speed of light. 

The Sun is the star that is nearest our Planet Earth. It is 150 million kms away from the Earth and light from the Sun takes about 8 minutes and 20 seconds to reach Earth. 

She was awe-struck and was wondering about the amazing distance between her planet and the new planet that would be her new home when she found the answers in her head.

She got the answers to whatever she thought in her head as her husband could read her mind perfectly!

It would take about 50 minutes to reach Planet Kizia that was at a distance of 900 million kms from Planet Earth.

That was so far from her home, her street, her city, her country, her planet...

Petergate, with a view of York Minster, York, UK photo by Tess Kincaid; Magpie Tales

Eyes For Only You!

When they first met, she was sure she had seen him somewhere before.
Though he was silent, his eyes narrated stories of yore...

In his eyes, she could see her reflection - honest & crystal clear.
In those minutes, the eyes bridged the distance & brought them near.

Just Like Her!

She was smart and highly qualified.

Her family wanted to get her married. Everyone’s concern was that she will be 40 soon and that her biological-clock was ticking. 

40 was still some years away. But, she was sick and tired of the way people exaggerated & hounded her...

Made her wish she could just disappear to some place far away... 
 

“Main hoon hi nahin is duniya ki!” (I don’t belong to this world) She sang a Hindi-movie song. 

It was her life and she wanted to live it her own way. They wanted her to start a new life and set up her own home. 

Source: Housing.com

But, she wanted to get married if and only if she could find a compatible partner. As she believed in astrology, she wanted her horoscope and likes and dislikes to be a perfect-match with her life-partner. By perfect she meant- cent percent! Her family had given up hope as the best match they could arrive after matching hundreds of horoscopes was 75%! 

Mysterious Packages

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She was surprised to receive a surprise package that had a gadget-like item inscribed with text she had no clue about. 

When she received some more of that electronic stuff, she reported and handed those over to the police and detectives for investigation. 

Later that week, when mysterious flying objects were spotted in the sky, she was reported missing along with the packages- they seemed to have vanished without a trace.

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Suitable Girls

After much effort, the righteous King finally managed to capture the ghost in the forest and was on his way to his Kingdom, with the ghost on his back.

The ghost initially struggled and whimpered and then settled comfortably by resting on the King's back. The ghost narrated the following story to the King to pass the time:

There were two brothers named Kumar and Swaraj, who were the suitors of two sisters- Priya & Chanchal.

When the marriage-proposal arrived, the elder brother, Kumar, had no demands while the younger brother, Swaraj, wanted to set some tests for the sisters to get to know the girls better and find out who's the suitable and right match for him and his brother.

It Was A Valentine's Day Eve...

It was a Valentine's eve and he was driving in an isolated road. He found it odd to see an abandoned car parked there with doors open. A distant cry triggered him to stop his car to check if things were alright. He peeked into the car's back door and found  fresh blood spots at the back seats. That's when he witnessed a masked man approaching the abandoned car...

He could see a lady's body slumped lifelessly on the car's front seat. Probably it was her loud cry that had alarmed him. He couldn't see her face as it was dark.

"Is this all happening for real? Seems like a Bollywood movie!" he thought alarmed as he tried to hide behind the abandoned car. 

The masked man had reached the car's front door and was checking if the lady was really dead. Looking convinced, the man left on his bike. Luckily, that masked man never suspected the other hidden visitor nor did he spot his car. Else, perhaps he would suffer the same fate as the lady...

He breathed a sigh of relief. He pulled out his phone to inform the police, but found there was no network-signal in that area. He used the torch-light of his phone to check out the victim's face. He was shocked to find that it was her...

Silence, Darkness And Light

Dropping her line into Fool's Lake, she patiently waited for something to bite.
Her patience was tested as there was just no catch; it didn't seem right...

Photo Prompt: Mondays Finish The Story

It was night & she would have to return empty-handed to the palace,
What would she answer the Queen? Not accomplishing task is a disgrace...

She had to fulfill all the tasks successfully to be considered for marriage.
It was all her fault for falling in love with the prince & the challenge.

The prince would marry the one, who completed all the tasks before dawn.
The silence was deafening & the darkness overpowering as she was a pawn...

Superpowers For Love!

I would love to get unlimited superpowers on the coming Valentine’s Day & use my superpowers to make it the most memorable day in my husband’s life! 

First, I want the healing-touch superpower. Just my touch, and he’ll get rid of tiredness, body pains and the sporadic infection on his neck. Then, he will feel relaxed!

I wish the superpower to smartly erase all bad and sad memories (in both our minds!) and get the power to Forgive & Forget. Then, we begin the day and the rest of our life on a fresh note! No more complaints how he has forgotten to wish me on my birthday or anniversary or past Valentine’s Days or his grievances about the errors I have committed :D 

I want the superpower of magic- sort, clean and manage everything with the power of my thoughts. Just like “Superman” could get a letter typed just by thinking, even I want such a power that will help me maintain & achieve everything quickly & wonderfully!

The Ugly Skin

She was unaware that she was being watched. 

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She removed the ugly skin she was in, thereby revealing her real beauty that dazzled under the full-moon's light, as she sang in her melodious voice and danced magically unlike any other dancer he had seen.