By nandan on April 10, 2010
It is one of my relatives wedding in the last week of May. The bride is a graduate student and the groom works for a CA (charted accountant) in Lucknow. The bride’s father has a small saree business so not much money. The marriage was arranged by some relative of the bride. This marriage is [...]
Posted in Women in pain | Tagged dowry, Hindu wedding, india, indian women, Varanasi, wormen rights
By nandan on June 25, 2009
This question that has always been in my mind is who actually gets married- the bride and groom or their family? It is so common to hear people getting married but then there are few stories associated with these weddings that makes me confused about who actually got married- the bride and groom or the [...]
Posted in Women in pain | Tagged dowry, hindu weddings, women rights
By nandan on May 15, 2009
Lok Samiti organized a group wedding of 32 poor couples again this year on 10th of May. It was again a huge event where more than 8,000 people were present. I reached there around 1 o’clock afternoon time and saw all the families preparing for the wedding; people were so excited. Lok Samiti had organized this [...]
Posted in Varanasi | Tagged dowry, group wedding, Hindu wedding, mehdiganj
By nandan on April 22, 2009
My cousin is going to get married soon, maybe in December this year. My relative who has a permanent job in a bank is too much interested in getting people married. He knows several families who want to get their daughters and sons married. He asked my uncle to get his son married with one [...]
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By nandan on September 20, 2008
Rinki, my uncle’s daughter, is 25 years old now and her father has been looking for a groom to get her married for the past 2 years but nobody wants to marry her because she had got her heart valves operated few years ago. My uncle went to a lot of families whom he [...]
Posted in Women in pain | Tagged dowry, indian wedding, women's rights india