Darshan ~Meeting Personally

Darshan (Meeting Personally)

Once you see the girl directly, you can easily check whether her face
measures up. The figure is a different matter altogether. Women have
conducted more research into packaging themselves than have been
conducted on the entire US space effort. You should realize that,
while you were struggling in your engineering program in undergraduate
on grad school, women were learning the techniques of camouflage. She
KNOWS that it is her looks that count. By packaging herself so that
she seems attractive to a non-resident Indian for about 10 minutes,
she can earn all that it took the NRI 10 years of hard work to
realize. Women are extremely honest with their friends about their
positive and negative points. They are intensely aware of their flaws,
and work systematically towards concealing them.

So, if she seems to have a liking for loose, flowing sarees or
salwar-kameez, keep your mind open to the possibility that she may be
overweight. That fold of her saree draped oh-so-elegantly across her
midriff might be concealing a paunch. It it is wound demurely around
her back, she probably has spare tires. Does she walk slowly and
sedately, like an old Spanish galleon making its way across the seas?
She is probably holding her paunch in.

So what do you do if she always appears in such clothes? You cannot
very well demand that she change clothes... that would be outrageously
bad form. AND SHE KNOWS THAT! One way to approach such a problem is
the following. Tell her that she cannot wear a saree in the states,
that it would be embarrassing for you. Tell her that if she is not
willing to wear jeans, shorts and pants on a regular basis, you are
probably not a good choice for her. Subtly hint that you would like to
see her in western clothes. If she refuses flat-out, my friend, you
can be sure that she is hiding something. If she has a good figure,
she will make damned sure that you see it.

A large percentage of women in India have huge hips and very heavy
thighs. This is mainly due to lack of exercise. In a saree or
churidar, it is impossible to check for these, which is why they are
so popular. If a woman states that she does not wear pants, warning
bells should ring in her mind. One way to check for obesity under a
saree or salwar is to note the relative positions of her bosom and
midriff. For a woman with a good figure, the bosom should be at a
considerably higher level. If she dresses so that the bosom does not
stand out, it is almost surely because she has a paunch that comes to
the same level. Or she may be droopy, saggy or totally flat.

Let me reiterate, if a girl has something to show, she will make
damned sure that you will see it.

One way to see how your prospective bride looks when she is not
dressed up is to ask to see her family albums. NOT the ones that they
keep out ostentatiously but the ones that they keep tucked away at the
corner of the shelf. A lot of overweight women go through crash diets
during the wedding season, starving themselves or going to
professional "fat-farms" to lose dozens of pounds, to get into
presentable shape for the darshan. I know of one woman who lost 60
pounds in 8 months preparing for the wedding. She quickly gained it
all back after the marriage. Pictures of the woman taken 2 or 3 years
ago should tell you whether she is inclined to obesity.

If, on the other hand, she is a thin woman who has padded herself up
to look good on darshan day, there is no way on earth that you can
tell. The best way to check for this sort of stuff is to enlist the
help of a sympathetic, liberated, female, friend, sister or other
relative. She can easily see through the disguise and give you
unbiased estimates of the interior. So, if you have a sister, you had
better start being nice to her.

HAPPY HUNTING! ... UNITING!