The Word of mAn[S]o0r

We celebrated the mayon rasm of my cousin K on the 2nd of this month. For the uninitiated, mayon is a rasm in which the prospective dulhan is rubbed with ubtan by all the ladies in the house and given duas. After this time, till the mehndi, the prospective bride is supposed to be her holiest period when she should pray for the good life after her marriage and husband. It is said that any dua a girl in mayon does is instantly granted! (I gave her a whole list of my dua's. LoL). Also, the bride is not supposed to come under the open sky, less she be tainted by the evil spirits which lurk around. Now various families have different rituals, where they keep the bride away from all male contact, some even keep her away from any human contact an so forth. Ours is a bit open, so she was only not allowed to come under the open sky, other things were open.

After the mayon rasm, we had dinner which was followed by a Ghazal evening organized by my mamoo's. The singer, Rabia Kanwal, was pretty good and some of the ghazals were pretty hard hitting. There was also a dhamal which incited lots of dancing!. The ghazal came to an end around 2 AM.. after which us cousins decided to go on for a dance nite till the wee hours of the morning! It was so much fun.. with the whole family being pulled into the dance (free stlye bhangra). I came baq home at around 4 AM that night! Overall, it was good!

Stay tuned for the next post.... Dance preparation - day 3.

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