Random Bakwas chapter 2

Today's topic is regarding Indian marriage and specially, the food associated with the ceremony. Ya, food play a major role in these functions, which attracts crowd, who are totally irrelevant in the context. Last weekend, i was lured into such a trap as i couldn't resist an offer of salubrious meal, which could placate the dead taste cells of mine.

Analogous to grad school events, there is lot of similarities. High variability in incoming rate, dining time and appetite of people makes it one of the toughest service operations to be modeled. I am not kidding. Adding another dimension of forecasting the crowd increases the complexity in logarithmic scale. Ps: author is an engineer by heart :-p

Digging deeper into this issue, this is challenge from supply chain perspective. Integrating Indra nooyi's Aquafina, Nellore farmer's rice and Mumbai's chat walla's pani puri for a single reception meal, an averagely flamboyant marriage would cost you a million Indian rupees. Statistically, fifteen percent of entire marriages happening in India would fall under this category. Investing this money in a fully diversified high performing mutual fund for four years would yield you 2 million rupees.

From service provider’s perspective, it is a billion rupee industry spread across various sector. This is an economy on its own. So, if you are interested in reviving an economy from recession, get married soon :-p. Rest, invest your money and laugh at the former :-D

PS: Dated May 12, 9:45 am