Updated On: 08 January, 2017 06:01 AM IST | | Meenakshi Shedde
<p>Is it friendship or is it love? We thought Karan Johar was the last word on it, at least in the movies. But trust the Gujjus to be way ahead of the game when it comes to food and sex</p>


Is it friendship or is it love? We thought Karan Johar was the last word on it, at least in the movies. But trust the Gujjus to be way ahead of the game when it comes to food and sex. They have perfected the art of the maitri karar, or friendship agreement, a notarized document that cheerfully allows a married man to live with other women. It was popular in Gujarat in the 1970s, when bored, urban, middle class Gujarati men who wanted "something on the side," could still felt morally upright, simply by virtue of being vegetarian. No onion or garlic even, so heaven's gates were 100% guaranteed.