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cost of a useful tree. It was like monks who are not at all useful but enjoy all the glory and comforts at the cost of toiling householders."
Both Vijay and Deepak were dumb and numb as they did not have any answer for her logical simile.
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The marriage ceremony and the attendant rituals at Jaipur were short and simple. The venue was a moderate size hall with sitting capacity of about two hundred persons. The time given in the invitation card was eleven o'clock onwards on fifth December, 2010. Guests started arriving around 10.30.a.m. Deepak and Deepti came along with Vijay, the bridegroom, his relations and the retinue called "barat". Deepti was surprised to see that there was no festive environment, no floral decorations and no band or music system and not even the symbolic gate (torandwar with memento type small wooden rectangular piece to be touched or hit by a stick by the bridegroom as a sign of winning the bride) which are all essentially integrated on such occasions. Deepti asked Vijay, "Are your in-laws very poor, unable to afford even modest decoration and small music band to give minimum festive look and colour."
Vijay, "The family is fairly rich. For generations their family enjoyed the prestigious status as head priests of erstwhile rulers of the princely state of Sikar."
Deepti, "Why is then the festivities, decorations and music, the ceremonial environment not there?"
