Posted on 11/24/2007 10:18:49 AM PST by EveningStar
A man was beaten by his fiance and in-laws and relieved of his belongings in India after they found out he was bald and wearing a wig, it was alleged yesterday...
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
There once was a man named Patel
who didn't hide is pate well...
‘Looks like the family gave Prabir Das Boot...
Those of us possessing a polished pate - The Chromium Cranium Crowd - resemble that remark!
Heehee!
He ain’t gonna be hiding the sausage again anytime soon!
Anyway, I feel for this guy. What we he supposed to do? He could have gotten implants, I suppose. But that can cost thousands of dollars and it ends up looking about as natural as a cornfield on a hockey rink.
This is the stuff of Kipling:
“Prabir Das was ‘e, of Assam where they grew the fine tea.
‘E spyed a young maiden, and ‘is she would be.
‘E courted the lady, a lady most fair, but she tossed out the rotter an’ she tore up ‘is ‘air...
And they wonder why we consider them to be primitives.
Personally speaking I don’t care if a man is bald or not. What completely turns me off is the darn wig, and I guess I just don’t understand why he would feel the need to hide a perfectly normal masculine characteristic.
To me, a wig on a man is a little creepy, but that’s just me.
He was apparently not only the Hair Club President; he was also a client.
you had to put me to shame like that?
What can I say? Kipling was the master. ;0)
More....
Family goes for potential son-in-law bald-headed
Rahul Bedi in New Delhi
Police in India’s Assam state have received a complaint from a prospective groom against his would-be in-laws for allegedly thrashing him for not disclosing that he wore a wig to conceal his baldness.
A chastened Prabir Das told police that no sooner had he stepped into his fiancee’s home for dinner last week than she yanked off his wig. Thereafter, her parents and other relatives began beating and abusing him.
Mr Das said the family not only ripped his expensive wig apart but also relieved the 33-year-old hospital employee of his wallet, mobile phone, motorbike and driving licence as “penalty” for his deception.
Mr Das had advertised for a bride in the matrimonial columns of a local Bengali newspaper - a common phenomenon in India - and Dilip Roy, a retired state engineer seeking a match for his daughter Shreshta, responded.
A meeting between Mr Das and the prospective bride and their two families resulted in them becoming engaged.
The wedding was fixed for December 12th. And in keeping with Indian custom the bride’s family began planning the traditional feasting and lavish present-giving to relatives and friends. At great expense they also began putting together Shreshta’s trousseau and dowry.
But, sadly, no one in the bride’s family knew the would-be groom’s dark secret of what he had ingeniously concealed beneath a snugly fitting wig: his baldness.
To Mr Das’s eventual humiliation, however, an acquaintance spilled the beans to the stunned Roys, who were expecting him for dinner the same evening.
A few hours later, as Mr Das stepped in his prospective in-laws’ front door his would-be wife wrenched his wig off and almost simultaneously her mother slapped him hard.
Within seconds, the entire family had jumped on him and began beating him, abusing him for his duplicity.
A broken and hysterical Mr Das managed to escape, heading for the nearest police station determined on revenge.
“We have initiated an investigation on the basis of the complaint lodged by Das and detained Roy for interrogation,” a police official, Rajen Singh, said last week.
Mr Roy has pleaded ignorance and told the police he was “shocked” to learn of his prospective son-in-law’s baldness. The wedding, police said, appears to be off.
While I usually don’t condone violence, if he’s bald, he deserves to be beaten.
L0L! When I clicked on this the story I posted from the Irish Times guess what I got as a pop up?
shaadi.com matrimonials
Apparently Indias largest online marriage service! L0L
A friend at work, whose parents arranged his marriage back in India, called off the engagement when it came out that his proposed bride (and her family) had lied about her age. She was roughly a year older than claimed in the presentation papers.
The magnitude of the discrepancy was less of an issue than the loss of credibility, which he foresaw he would be incapable of getting past in future years, to the detriment of a future lifetime spent with her. Unlike the casual hooking up and serial polygamy which has become almost a norm in our culture, Indians expect to be married for life regardless of difficulties which emerge after the knot is tied. Thus, they are far more cautious about these things, and far more offended about “material misrepresentation” than those of us who may approach marriage with a more casual attitude, treating it more or less like a short-term lease, with “easy cancellation” terms available to either party to the transaction (unless children enter the picture).
Those who live in the society of the “easy hookup” and serial polygamy look a bit foolish themselves when they react to examples like this with amusement. In the end, the joke is on them, and it’s a quite unpleasant joke at that. In Europe, which has cultivated similar marriage customs (and abortion practices) for some decades, the ROP is winning the “battle in the bedroom” hands down. So far, it looks like the USA is only trailing Europe by a few decades, though the replacement population as the indigenous population dwindles is not (yet) dominated by adherents of the ROP.
That is not right. A comb over, ok.
More accurate title would be “Man beaten for wearing a bad wig”. I can’t condone that but I understand it.
Looks like I’m staying home today!
Oh, wait this is the country where 370 million people don’t have in door crappers and monkies take out big city politicians.
The good with the bad, I guess.
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