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Dear home: Letters from an NRB – Shaadi@Farm house:Poverty of taste in metropolitan weddings
Dear home: Letters from an NRB
Shaadi@Farm house:Poverty of taste in metropolitan weddings
By Dev Nath Pathak
Everybody loves a shaadi. A truism! Indeed. There is more to it. To complicate it further, it is not just about a man wedding a woman. Another truism! Of course, it is much more than that; it’s about forging proximity between two kinship groups (minimum); as it is said in common parlance, it brings two families in an affinal kin-lock. So far so good- thanks to the basics of anthropology as well as common sense. But then, the Shaadi that we are eyewitnesses of, and often-invited...