20. The Proposal

Sivaprakasam's PoV

Though we are not as rich as my daughter's in-laws, we are not poor either. I have a label production unit on a small scale. Almost all the labels that go on a cloth made in Tirupur is manufactured from my unit. We had only one daughter, a very beautiful girl. She grew up just as we liked and was a very obedient and respectful daughter. My wife taught her everything from cooking to taking care of a household. In her leave days, she would come to our unit and will supervise everything. She even helped me in tallying income and expenses every month. She never spoke or did anything against us. 

When she finished college, we started our groom hunt for her. Many alliances came and we filtered two out of the heap. Both were from higher status than us and both the grooms were handsome. One from Tirupur and one from Chennai. But then, the Tirupur allian