Marriage was always going to be an inescapable eventuality for Ajay Shroff. For a Gujarati, at the age of 26, he is anyways late on the matrimonial circuit. By the time he is 28, he is officially an antique. Everyone around him is doing their best to arrange his marriage. Spearheading the movement is his Mother. Too bad he cannot get over his “gamophobia”. He goes weak in the knees thinking about the torture he is subjected to when he meets girls on ‘arranged dates’. When he narrates his harrowing incidents to anyone willing to listen (or read), he unfailingly finds his audience on the floor rolling with laughter. The horror of his pre-matrimonial mis-adventures is a source of great entertainment for those around him. The world of bio-datas, internet profiles, photoshoped pictures and oh yes, horoscopes, is fraught with uncertainty, calamity and disaster. If only people could stop laughing at Ajay’s plight! How he wishes for a romantic fairy-tale of how he met his wife. How he wishes he wasn’t getting married just because his Mom says, “Get Married!
About the Author
Himanshu Modi, like a superhero, leads twin lives. He is an IT Sales Professional by day, and a writer by night. He is a creative person at heart. Story telling has been his passion since he first narrated his confused version of Ramayana as a 3-year-old which his parents have captured on an audio cassette. It is one of his fondest childhood memories. He loves reading, watching movies, sketching, painting, going around on his motor-bike and some more reading. If he had to pick one favourite author, he would choose P.G. Wodehouse.