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Short Marriage Service
Jaspal Bhatti

SMS or short message service may be a boon but if you ask Fiza she would say it is the most horrible thing. How could someone divorce his wife by merely writing talaq, talaq, talaq thrice and sending it through SMS? But for Chand Mohammad the invention of this short and quick service has proved a godsend for getting rid of Fiza.

Earlier, boys used to court for years as it needed a lot of courage as well as grammatical and poetical skills to pen down a love letter and guts to hand it over to the girl concerned. But now in the mobile era, if in answer to your SMS saying ‘I love you’ comes a rude ‘shut up!’ you can always forward it your rivals.

While matters of heart have definitely benefited from this invention, political parties, too, have been quick to latch on to it for their own marriages and divorces. We don’t know what type of SMSs were exchanged between the RJD and the LJP because suddenly Lalu Prasad Yadav and Ram Vilas Paswan were seen embracing each other. Naveen Patnaik, too, passed on the ‘divorce message’ to BJP after 11 years of marriage. Many political Majnus are also sending love SMSs to Mayawati daily for an alliance but her stock reply to everybody is "Aap ne apne aap ko hamare karib kaise soch liya?"

Some leaders are also setting up a Third Front for mass-marriages. Many may like to have a live-in arrangement rather than a permanent marriage. They would provide support from outside. It means that only in time of crises they would act like husband or wife. As of now marriages under the Third Front are expected to be of the shortest nature.

A look-alike of Sharad Pawar was sitting wearing a wedding gown. Someone asked him, "Are you thinking of remarriage?" "No" he said, "I am just giving my old wife a scare."





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