Where is the baby?Where is the baby?
I need to be "upgraded" to aunt/uncle,grandma/grandpa,great granma/great granpa.
Oh,It should be a boy.A boy.
Dont touch this. Dont do that. (Replace this and that with appropriate verbs (could be nouns too) depending on your state/language/caste/creed/subcaste etc)
Study.Study.Study.Only Centum in Math.(*)
Dont play all the time.
Dont watch TV.
Study Engineering. (*)
Study Medicine.(*)
Go to the US.
Mebbe now...Go Abroad. (Germany,UK and Australia are acceptable.)
No foriegn women (or men for that matter). Mind it.
Get Married. Get married.More specifically,Marry this boy/girl.
Where is the baby?Where is the baby?
I need to be "upgraded" to aunt/uncle,grandma/grandpa,great granma/great granpa.
Oh,It should be a boy.A boy.
And there we go all over again.
The frequency of the repetitions again vary only with the degree of deviation of the family from streotypes or they are absolutely bohemian and not adhereing to any so called "norms of the society" which is as frequent as finding logic in a TR/Captain co-starrer (God-Forbid!!). (read none).
(*) - Denotes that the chances of hearing this increase ad infinitum if you are Tambram. Every elder you meet from Thatha, Paati to your Mom`s twice removed uncle`s daughter`s husband`s father or some such random person would have told you this in different terms.
Note: This post is a culmination of several discussions with a few friends &( inspired from a post by Krishashok) from different Indian backgrounds and realizing that our upbringing has considerable stereotypicality. (if thats a word). All pressures have not been necessarily applied to me.
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