Friday, July 23, 2004

Daughter's wedding and teak-trees

Bengalis know how to meet the sky-rocketing costs of a wedding - plant a teak-tree when a girl child is born.  By the time the girl grows up, the tree will fetch enough money for her wedding !

Read it in 'Small seed, big idea'.  The author of this article criticizes Naidu for doing away with panchayat system in Andhra Pradesh.




1 Comments:

Blogger Ravi said...

Even one of my friend this long back in Hyd... He planted two teak trees in their backyard.

:-)

July 25, 2004 10:18 AM  

Post a Comment

<< Home