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Did You Ever Love Me? Book Review: Can Rithvik singh turn heartbreak into a homecoming?

Did You Ever Love Me? by Rithvik Singh is a tender contemporary poetry collection about love, heartbreak, longing, self worth and learning to let go. Its greatest strength is emotional accessibility: Singh writes directly to readers who feel intensely and care deeply. The collection offers comfort without pretending heartbreak is simple, though its simplicity may occasionally feel familiar to seasoned poetry readers. Did you Ever Love Me? Have you ever loved someone so completely that, after they left, you were left wondering whether they had ever understood what they had been given? Not merely whether they loved you, but whether they ever noticed how much you loved them, how much patience you offered, how many small things you remembered, or how often you chose to stay when leaving might have been easier. There is a particular loneliness in that question because it rarely arrives at a dramatic moment. More often, it finds you while you are doing something completely ordinary. Yo...

Please ...... take my daughter......I will pay for it!!

So marriages brings a glow to a family. With all sorts of decorations and all we all feel happy at those times. But the biggest agony of girl's parents during the marriages is dowry. The girl's family works hard to make arrangements. The girl's family is often seen with their heads down in front of the boys family. Then if any arrangement, any, like food, decoration etc has some little fault in it then they are often rebuked and insulted by the boy's family. After all they are the boy's family they can do anything huh! .... collars high. Its a shame that we have different status for both the families. Just being a boy's family is enough.... an honour is attached to it. WHY??? It is a big shame for the rich Indian culture.Huh! Even after the girl's family is the one sending their daughter the important member of their family to the boy's house why are they the ones to pay the dowry???? Is it like a price given to keep garbage at someone's house? I know this custom started as a good means to give a share of the family property to the daughter. But now what is its relevance when girls have to be legally given a share of the family property. It should be hers not his and his family's. I have heard of some people who don't educate their daughter's just to save money for dowry and what happens is if there is some tension between the husband and wife then wife is always the one to compromise because she is at his mercy. she cannot go back parents won't accept. I don't really know when will this end.

ps:) This post was originally posted on That's Awful

Comments

Si_Lee said…
seen this there .. and gotta agree to each word said here ...
Priya Joyce said…
@ sid

hey thanx i am happy tat u agree but sad tat i hav to post it there coz of the situation.
kitna accha hota agar mujhe ye post hi nahi karna padta.

hey will cum by ur place soon k am a lil busy wth exaams tom last one.
Kartz said…
Couldn't 've been stated better...
Tushar Mangl said…
I mean, the sheer passion in which post has been written
wows me.
Things are changing,but as we push ourselves into more materialistic world
These points which Priya has raised will only aggravate in the future
Phew!!!
I wish i knew when will this end
Priya Joyce said…
@ tsshar:

yes it may increase due to certain reasons but I personally think literacy wud play an important part in this i mean ti slow the speed by which its increasing.
thanx
Tushar Mangl said…
With literacy priya
is coming brand conscious.
Now people want specific brands in there dowry baggage.
Priya Joyce said…
@ tushar:

haan shai kaha par i kuch toh farak padna chahiye thougt the effect will be of both types.

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