Brown Wedding

Vikram Chatwal is living my life. This article gives you a sense of what it means to get married in India. Not so much what the marriage means but the pomp and circumstance surrouding ceremony. Guests at the Chatwal-Sachdev wedding included Bill Clinton, the Prime Minister of India, Shahrukh Khan, and assorted other rich folk flown in from the US and London.

It's hard to feel bad for Vikram even if his father arranged his marriage. Sant Chatwal chose a 25-year old Indian model (Priya Sachdev) with a degree from the London School of Economics for his 34-year old, Wharton MBA graduate son. Not to mention the decadent lifestyle his father has afforded Vikram thus far: his private apartment in the Trump Building facing the Park in Manhattan with his own chef and an Aston Martin at his disposal. I guess that's what happens when you grow up in an Upper East Side penthouse and your father owns 12 hotels in Manhattan.

Indian Standard Time (IST involves running roughly 2 hours late, particularly to important events) exists because Indian events are always a production--a LONG production. There is no incentive to be on time, since you will be there FOREVER and a day.