How Chandigarh Women Cheat on Their Men

Harata is a 30 year old Chandigarh woman who is not married but says she has a very loyal boyfriend who is, in fact so loyal "that he is rather a bore sometimes!"

"I am not a woman who needs all kinds of crazy excitement" says Harata, "but I must say that faithfulness in a man is sometimes a sign that he is too much like an old slipper...it is comfy and familiar, but who wants to go out on the town with an old slipper?"

"At first I thought that Aarya was just nervous about having such a hot property as myself for a girlfriend, and that he would loosen up and start to be more than just a dog running after it's master (or mistress in this case) but soon I found out that he is not likely to change. He never wants to party or go and do something wild and crazy like jump in the river at midnight naked....you know...the things most girls who have any spirit love doing."

"So I started to find guys who responded to my winks and smiles and before I knew it I had lots more nightlife than I could handle. And Aarya, is so naive. I tell him silly stories about where I was and he believes me everytime. He actually thinks I am visiting a sick Auntie in the hospital when in fact I'm out with Bahaar dancing at the disco and letting my hair down!"

"Women can cheat much easier than men because if they want to cheat, they probably have an "old slipper" type man in the first place who makes them want to cheat...and old slippers are not too bright."

Yalda, a 22 year old good looking Punjabi girl has no qualms about cheating on her man, Babu, because she is certain that he cheats on her, so she says "an eye for an eye as they say in the Talmud."

And while Yalda considers herself a Muslim she also considers herself a modern woman, who has every right to do anything a man can do and do it better--even having an affair behind her man's back.

"Babu is such a liar!" she said when asked about his philandering ways by her best friend Malika. "He never thinks for a minute that just because he is a man he can do what he wants...so I have showed him well many times by just telling him I was going to the market for a few hours and of course I do go to the market, but I buy my fish from Malik, the one with the big shoulders and the white smile...yes he smells of fish, but he makes up for it with his kisses."

Yalda cheats and says she has no guilt about it, because Babu does it and that makes it ok in her books.

Ghazala lives in a relatively rural district of Chandigarh, and her name derives from the 'gazelle' the long-legged deer that is so excellent at jumping and fleeing danger with speed and agility.

"My father gave me a great name" says Ghazala, "because in truth I am just like the animal--my speed at escaping danger is the best, which is how I stay two steps ahead of my boyfriends, none of whom know that I am cheating on each of them with the other!"

"I have a way of showing up at one guys house just when the time is right for me to play around and have some fun, while the other guys are all off at a soccer match or a playing cricket. You see I select my guys so they all have different interests. When this one is at this event, the other will be home and so on..."

"I think to cheat on men you have to be very clever and do some research, but it is worth the thrill of pulling it off, if you like to live dangerously that is!"

Ghazala has several times mis-judged just when a soccer match will end, or when it has been cancelled from rain, and in those cases her long gazelle legs have saved the day as she darts out of a window and down the alley behind the house to get away before anyone suspects.