Jaya's Wedding

Had been thinking alot of what i should write about coz nothing much had been happening in my boring life ....and then Jaya's wedding happened.....We left for Nagpur on the 22nd ....Nampally Train station ....The Nizammudin Express to Delhi was 20 mins late...Mum dropped me off at the station ...I looked for my platform number on the screen as the train timings appeared ..It didnt take me very long to reach platform number 1.I looked around to find the a whole bunch of people about 30 of them waiting ...The train was late and finally when it did arrive we jostled into the boogies....we settled in our seats...We didnt sleep that night ..Rinki played the dholak and they sang some sindhi songs and danced all night ....We reached the Nagpur station at 10.15 am the next day and we were greeted very warmly with rose boquets and oranges..We had cars waiting for us to drop us to our hotel.The ride from the station to the hotel was a 5min drive with mostly college's and Government offices on the way..We stayed at The Ranikothi's for 3 days....Nagpur was quite different from the pre formed image I had about the city...It looked more like a town with very few shopping malls and most importantly less traffic and no pollution which you hardly get to see in Hyderabad these days .With the advent of IT companies ,things have changed drastically..Nagpur on the other hand is a really warm and clean city famous for its oranges....DAY 1 -We reached the rani kothi's and freashned up and went for breakfast at the mini hall ...The breakfast was a mix of sindhi and SouthIndian food...we got back to our rooms ...the good thing was I had company .We were free for the rest of the day till 5 ..so we decided to go for a walk around the city ..there isnt anything much to see in Nagpur but still there is something special about the city ...the warmth,the stillness and laidback life. Well,in the evening they has some sangeet and it was the first time i had been to some thing like this..The sangeet was fun ..they played the dholak and sang the sindhi folk songs which were funny ...I mean i didnt understand but i asked my friend and she was kind enough to translate it for me.There was food again !One thing about sindhi marriages is that there is variety of food,mocktails,tikka's you just can't have enough of it.After the sangeet we got ready to go for the engagement ceremony at The Grand Millenium ..We had the kachela cars to pick us and drop us to the hotel...It was kind of boring in the beginning but later it was fun.Jaya looked beautifully gorgeous that day!We danced all night and had a blast!I kinda get mad when when music plays ,i love to dance!I also met many people.There was this particular lady who sat beside me ..she was very charming and well spoken...she invited me to tag along with her for dinner but i couldn't join her coz jay asked me to come to dance ..i felt really bad i couldn't join the lady for dinner ..there was something really special about her smile she had some kinda charisma..Anyway ,we had fun dancing and then it was also jay's parents anniversary so we had a cake cutting and sang songs.We called it a day the next morning at about 2.30 and then the cars dropped us back to the hotel.We got back but couldn't sleep so we talked for a while .With me in my room were Dimple,deepu,mohit and 4 other aunties from Nanded,Bangalore,Hyderabad and delhi.Most of them gossip mongers(Middle aged anunties somehow have a natural inclination for gossip)..any way i didn't care coz i didn't understand most of it.
Another thing nagpur is famous for is the haldiram's mithai ...its one thing u just cant afford to miss..
From Variety food,expensive jewellery to the the most lavish venues..sindhi wedding is an extravagant affair.The next day i.e the 24th was Wedding...The baraat as they call it ...came to the hotel at 1.00pm with the dhula sitting on a horse ..The reception was on the same day in the night and we were to leave the next day in the morning at 8am...All in all it was a wonderful experience and one of the most memorable one's