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The preparations for Asghar's wedding involved many guests being invited. Food was cooked in a neighboring house and served on long clothes. Women worked on embroidering clothes that would be sent to the bride. Three days before, the bride was sent seven ornate outfits, jewelry, perfumes, henna, sugar, fruits and drinks. At Mehroo's wedding, when the groom Meraj arrived he was disfigured and mentally unstable due to a past gun accident. Mir Nihal was disgusted and refused to let Mehroo marry him. However, Habib-ud-Din convinced Mir Nihal that cancelling the wedding would shame their family. Reluctantly, Mir

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The preparations for Asghar's wedding involved many guests being invited. Food was cooked in a neighboring house and served on long clothes. Women worked on embroidering clothes that would be sent to the bride. Three days before, the bride was sent seven ornate outfits, jewelry, perfumes, henna, sugar, fruits and drinks. At Mehroo's wedding, when the groom Meraj arrived he was disfigured and mentally unstable due to a past gun accident. Mir Nihal was disgusted and refused to let Mehroo marry him. However, Habib-ud-Din convinced Mir Nihal that cancelling the wedding would shame their family. Reluctantly, Mir

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ASSIGNMENT NO.

2
Answer of the questions

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IFRAH ANUM: (18081517-020) Dr. SAMAN SAIF
BS (A.T.S.) 5TH SEMESTER

FACULTY OF ENGLISH
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
UNIVERSITY OF GUJRAT
OCTOBER, 2020
Twilight in Delhi
Q.No.1: Elaborate on the preparations made for Asghar’s marriage in twilight in Delhi.
Ans. The preparations for the Asghar’s weeding were going on. Everyone in the house was kept
busy, some sewing, others tucking, others still cutting areca nut into small bits. Many guests
were to come and everyone ate paan, and areca nut had to be got ready. Soon after the
coronation, the preparations for Asghar’s wedding went on more hectically.
With the increase in the number of guests, the food cannot be cooked in the house. A
neighboring house was borrowed for the purpose where hired cooks cooked the food and baked
bread in the oven. Sharfullah, a cousin of Begum Kalim’s, was put in charge of the kitchen.
When the food was ready, he himself took it out of the huge pots to be served. At dinner time,
long food-clothes were spread inside the zenana for the women and in the mardana for the men.
Women worked away, embroidering, tacking laces and borders, serving food and talking. Those
sets of clothes which were ready were tucked with thread together and kept in huge wooden
trunks. They were the clothes which are sent to the bride from the bridegroom’s side.
Three days before wedding, the bride’s dress and things were sent to Bilqees’s house. There
were seven suits of clothes of gorgeous silks and gold brocade of different colours and heavy
with rich embroidery. They were tucked together and strewn over with parched fluffy rice as a
good omen. Then there was the jewellery, so many ornaments for the whole body made of gold
and silver. They were presents from Asghar’s parents to the bride; and some pieces had been
presented by the sisters-in-law and aunts and other near relations.
Attar, rose water and scents were kept in beautiful bottles of cut glass. In two conical red paper
bags, painted gorgeously with silver and gold, was powdered henna. In two other similar bags
was sugar. Another bag contained sandal and other scented herbs.
Besides these things, there were dried fruits, copra and crystallized sugar in trays. There were
two white earthen pots with beautiful designs painted on them, one containing curds, the other
sherbet for good luck. All these things were kept in trays and covered with fine and expensive
covers.
Q.No.2: Explain the disappointments that was suffered by the family at Mehroo’s wedding.
Ans. The marriage was going to be performed in the evening when the bridegroom and his party
arrived. Mir Nihal saw Meraj for the first time. He was really ugly with a black bushy beard and
the ferocious eyes of a madman. One part of his face was disfigured, and one ear was missing.
Meraj was very fond of shooting, and one day his gun had gone off by accident and had
disfigured him for life. The bullet had not been extracted from his brain as there was the risk of
his losing his life, and this had affected his mind.
When Mir Nihal saw his future son-in-law, he was filled with disgust and said that he would not
give his daughter away to a madman. Everyone was shocked at this news. They persuaded him to
agree, but he refused to listen to them. Habib-ud-Din was also filled with loathing at the sight of
his future brother-in-law but he had foresight and wisdom.
‘What are you doing, father?’ He argued with Mir Nihal. ‘If the marriage is cancelled it would
mean a bad name for our family.’
‘I can’t give my daughter away to a man who looks like a kazzaq. There is no dearth of boys.’
‘But don’t you see, if they go away without the marriage taking place, no one will blame them.
They will all say that there is some defect in the girl. We shall then have no face to show to
anyone.’
It was with difficulty that Habib-ud-Din made his father see the point and persuade him to agree
to Mehroo’s marriage. It was with trepidation and tears streaming down his face that he gave his
consent.
Masroor went and informed Mehro of all the developments. She sat there frightened and
mortified. Her eyes were shedding tears. When after the vida she saw Meraj, she felt like a cow
under the butcher’s knife. But she could not alter her fate, and had to accept it with as much
courage as she could muster.

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