Here are a FEW yes… just a FEW characteristics… of a MARATHI GIRLFRIEND
1. She gets really angry if you introduce her as your Girlfriend.
2. She starts singing “jana-gana-mana” loud, if you put your arm around
her in public.
3. You call her mother ‘mavshi’ or ‘kaku’.
4. When she is really sad she goes ‘kaahi nahi’ and doesn’t look at you.
5. At least one of her childhood photos has her dressed in a green “parkar-polka”.
6. In a raging thunderstorm if there’s a flash of lightening, (lets face it) she is not going to hug you like in the movies.
7. You have to listen to “Natya Sangeet”, to get in good with her dad.Better know “Ganpati Stotra” to impress her Mom.
8. You have to convince her that “the 3 hours we spent in Garden” actually qualifies as a date.
9. She blushes when somebody asks her about you.
10. She doesn’t wear jeans and skimpy T-shirts but takes it for granted that her career is as important as yours.
11. She remembers all the poems in high school texts.
12. She talks about ‘amke amke’ sir and all you can think about him is ’sir, dambis-ahey’.
13. You do not meet her, neither does she, on “Rakhi poornima”.
14. You and her brother are not buddies.
15. Ghari tumchya avdicha padartha kela tar athvanine dabyat gheun yete.
16. Your date on “Ganesh Chaturthi” will be at “Lalbaugh cha Raja” or “Siddhivinayak Mandir”.
17. You have at least once been to Khetwadi with her but she refuses to come with you to Breach Candy .
18. She is more comfortable on Jagannath Shankar Sheth Road than on Neapean Sea Road.
19. If you try to hold her hand in public she is most likely to respond with, “Isshhya, kaahi tari kay chaavatpana!”
20. If you somehow manage to take her to a movie (a remote possibility) and get corner seats; she is likely to respond with, “Shee bai, sagli aaplyalach baghtayat”.
Ha ha ha :))