“I come from a typical Marwari family from Solapur, where everything was given to me on a platter and my life was headed towards an arranged marriage.
All my life I had been over pampered being youngest in the family, and as time passed I saw the other girls around me getting married into a typical business class family and becoming house wives at such a young age, when I realised that I wanted more.
I was clear on what i wanted, I wanted to be independent, to be open minded. I decided to leave home and started my career at Wipro, after which I moved to Pune and travelled a lot in India and outside working in different assignments, It’s been 8 years since I’ve lived here, completely financially independent – I pay my own rent, I’ve bought my own car and I own a house and everything else that I use on a day to day basis.
Today I’m 30, working and still unmarried — which for a Marwari girl is apathetically late, but I have full faith in love and finding it. I’m so glad that I didn’t rush into marriage at an early age, when I wasn’t independent and hadn’t even discovered things about myself.”
“When were you the happiest through this journey?”
“It was after I got my own place here that my mom said, ‘You’re more like a son than a daughter’ and we couldn’t have been prouder of you.” :)
