While for most of us, the mark of a good shaadi is usually based on the food served, for the bandwallahs and ghodiwallahs, the criteria is quite different. For them, a good baraat is the one with the maximum nyochhaavar or vaara-phera - the money that the baraatis freely throw in the air while dancing. And according to them, there hasn't really been any "standard ki shaadi" this season in Delhi. The reason is that "People do not have money (notes to be specific) to throw, when they have to stand in ATM and bank queues to get money for their everyday needs," says Vikas Kumar, a dholwallah from West Delhi, who is also disappointed about the fact that no one is talking about how the cash crunch...
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