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Arre, mhaka sangata—bazaarantlen fiskaranche sagle panchvadde re, te hunnivont sodanch mujor korunk yetat, pan ghora vhalyala barikshen uktaunk pavta. Tuyo mehmaanacho rivoj vhodd, amchea gaavnantlo songat vosrun dilolo kallez borem, punn boxicher kaagod pettoglear tacher bhattali nachonam.
Arre beta, I understand the pinch—dowry is a heavy burden, but you cannot call it "rivaaz" and then feel cheated; rivaaz is what we choose to keep, not what the other party forces on us. In our generation, we gave what we could and lived with the loss, but your pashmina business shows you know the value of every rupee—so why let a single wedding undo two years of honest labour? My own daughter married a Toronto boy and we gave only a good watch and her mother's gold, and she says that is what built their equal marriage.
Bhaiti, I am hearing your story and my heart feels heavy. In our village, for my cousin's daughter's wedding, they also asked for a gold chain and a cow, but my shop's yearly profit was less than that. So I told them straight, "I have a daughter to educate, I cannot give what I do not have." We sat with the elders and made a different arrangement, sontusta both sides. Custom should not eat your tomorrow's rice.
