We all live in an era where each of us have an ID to prove our existence and in a country like mine, at times we need more than two IDs to prove I am who I am!
I have grown up in a family that is very disciplined with their documents especially IDs like PAN card, election ID card, driving license etc etc. I admire my father for his organisational skills when it comes to filing the documents of the house - from domestic LPG bill to insurance bills to all our original IDs! Until I stayed with my parents, this whole business of documents never seemed a drudgery to me. This was until I met my husband and his family!! 😃
Lets fast forward to the village style of living because all this while I have been describing an urban family where the member gets an ID as soon as they are born and all the other IDs follow suit as and when they are legally eligible.
So now coming to the farming family I am now a part of. The first time we felt the need of IDs were when we decided to get our marriage certificate done. We needed quite a few documents to be submitted like our Aadhar card, another proof of ID, marriage invitation, temple receipt etc. My father had kept all these documents from my end ready since the day of my marriage. So to get my documents sorted took me less than 15 minutes. While my husband needed more than 15 days to sort his documents which were just his two IDs!!!
Majority of his life being a farmer has made my husband complacent when it comes to the urban way of maintaining documentation. He rarely needs his documents as he has never dreamt of traveling aboard, apply for any educational degree again, apply for a loan or maybe even apply for a marriage certificate😆!
Finally, we did receive our marriage certificate and my husband gave out a sigh of relief thinking this would be his last tryst with documents!!
He had the worst shock of his life when I asked him to apply for his passport so that we can visit my sister together. Rather I guess it was the worst shock of my life to see a person who literally spent more than 30 years of his lifetime with no IDs except for the Aadhar which he made recently. I remember so many situations in my life that I had to submit my documents at so many places. So how exactly did my husband survive all these years with no documents whatsoever!!???
This question has been bothering me immensely since the day I saw the 'mess' of documents my husband has - no originals, lost his school certificates, never applied for a PAN etc!!! So is it just us urbaners who have this burden of maintaining the documents as we are stuck in this vicious cycle of proving our identity all the time while these villagers lead this stree-free life of no documents with no urgency to prove their identity to anybody!!!
I have grown up in a family that is very disciplined with their documents especially IDs like PAN card, election ID card, driving license etc etc. I admire my father for his organisational skills when it comes to filing the documents of the house - from domestic LPG bill to insurance bills to all our original IDs! Until I stayed with my parents, this whole business of documents never seemed a drudgery to me. This was until I met my husband and his family!! 😃
Lets fast forward to the village style of living because all this while I have been describing an urban family where the member gets an ID as soon as they are born and all the other IDs follow suit as and when they are legally eligible.
So now coming to the farming family I am now a part of. The first time we felt the need of IDs were when we decided to get our marriage certificate done. We needed quite a few documents to be submitted like our Aadhar card, another proof of ID, marriage invitation, temple receipt etc. My father had kept all these documents from my end ready since the day of my marriage. So to get my documents sorted took me less than 15 minutes. While my husband needed more than 15 days to sort his documents which were just his two IDs!!!
Majority of his life being a farmer has made my husband complacent when it comes to the urban way of maintaining documentation. He rarely needs his documents as he has never dreamt of traveling aboard, apply for any educational degree again, apply for a loan or maybe even apply for a marriage certificate😆!
Finally, we did receive our marriage certificate and my husband gave out a sigh of relief thinking this would be his last tryst with documents!!
He had the worst shock of his life when I asked him to apply for his passport so that we can visit my sister together. Rather I guess it was the worst shock of my life to see a person who literally spent more than 30 years of his lifetime with no IDs except for the Aadhar which he made recently. I remember so many situations in my life that I had to submit my documents at so many places. So how exactly did my husband survive all these years with no documents whatsoever!!???
This question has been bothering me immensely since the day I saw the 'mess' of documents my husband has - no originals, lost his school certificates, never applied for a PAN etc!!! So is it just us urbaners who have this burden of maintaining the documents as we are stuck in this vicious cycle of proving our identity all the time while these villagers lead this stree-free life of no documents with no urgency to prove their identity to anybody!!!
