( MENAFN - Kashmir Observer) Representational Photo By Mahoor Haya Shah There is a peculiar madness that has gripped our Kashmiri society, a grotesque theater where stupidity and excess have joined hands with arrogance and ignorance. These modern marriages, not bound by the warmth of union but shackled by the cold chains of ostentation, bear living testimony to erosion of human values. What are we celebrating? Love, or the gluttony of wealth? It is Nietzsche's eternal question of values that we must ponder-what has happened to the spirit of our people, where humility was once a mark of honor, and now, pride wears the crown? Marriage, once a sacred covenant, has devolved into a competition, a vulgar race to outdo, to outshine, and to outspend.
The overindulgence, the wastage, the spectacle! It is as if we are determined to prove to the world that we can consume beyond measure, that we can drape ourselves in luxury while pretending this charade is the culmination of love. Yet, the truth, like a whispered shame, is evident: we are not celebrating love; we are entombing it beneath layers of silk, gold, and glittering emptiness. The question then rises like the bitter smoke of an overcooked Wazwan: for whom are these grandiose displays? Do we truly find joy in parading our wealth before others, forcing them into the same cycle of debt, or is it that we find solace in the misery we inflict? A thousand dishes, yet not a morsel of sincerity.
We throw money at florists, decorators, ca.