Now we all know that the Brahmins are supposed to be the purest of the pure, wisest of the wise, and religious-est of the religious among the Hindu community. Even among them, there is a particular sub caste - Chaturvedis- who are pretty much the creme de la creme of the Brahmin world.
The word means someone who is familiar with the four vedas. But I'll be damned if you can find more than 40% who even know the names of the four vedas. okay okay. 50%. But I can't loosen it further :-P
Anyway, a Chaturvedi usually only marries a Chaturvedi. Now it makes me wonder how long they can go on without running out of non family chaturvedis. Hence, the community is fairly incestual I would think. Or tending towards it.
They also don't eat onions and garlic. Those are evil things to be avoided by the pure bred and blooded. As someone recently mentioned, a possible reason is that they unearth baser passions. Ooh. Scary.
Have you formed a picture already? Of a boring person who prays a lot? Well baby, I have to say that you are in for a big surprise!
Recently, I had the good fortune of hearing about a particular Chaturvedi's son's wedding. The gentleman also happens to be an officer at a sufficiently high post in one of the Ministries of the Government of India, so I derive double joy from blabbering about him in this post
*evil grin*
At his son's wedding, he invited the entire clan and friends to a "mujraa night". Now this in itself sounded quite shady to me, but then I imagined some live Indian music to which a woman would do a little kathak performance, blended with drinks, and I was at peace with the idea.
Ah, but the evening turned out to be quite different indeed! In the words of my source...
"...It was more a cabaret than a mujraa. There was a DJ playing music, and then these women came out dresssed in the bare minimum required amount of clothes on their body. Some were fat, some were thin but all of them strutted about and danced provocatively. At one point they proceeded to turning their backs to the audience and started gyrating their hips. It was positively vulgar I tell you..!"
Needless to say, a good laugh was had by all.
Except the man's wife. Smt. Chaturvedi was voted as being the best of the dancing women by another male guest.
:-D
Now THATS a good one!
P.S. Rushdie Mian, could you make this incident a part of your next novel please?
