To the way it used to be.. When I was a kid, we used to go out at night and stay out till 2am and then come home without hving to look back all the time to check if someone is following you or not.. My mom used to always wear her gold bangles and earings (I am speaking of 1980's) We never imagined for a second that we could get robbed at gun point.. One of my cousins got married in 1988 and another in 1990.. Those two are the probably the last two safe marriage I have attended when all the women used to come covered in gold from head to toe... I think mid ninties things began to get bad.. This milleneum has been the worst so far.. Now all my relatives and family back home keep all their gold belongings in the bank locker.. Most of the brides wear artificial or gold plated jewrely on their wedding day due to the fear of getting robbed while leaving the marriage hall.. Some do wear gold but then when the function gets over, they remove the bride's jewerly and make her wear artificial jewerly while someoen else carries the real jewerly...