Tuesday, May 17, 2005
Last week i attended my cousin's wedding in Mysore. He( my cousin ) is a Brahmin(ofcourse!!) & she is a Marwadi( Gujju i think). The whole marraige went off very well. Honestly, this was one of the most interesting weddings i have attended till date. Mere reason was that it was a cross-cultural wedding. The bride n her parents almost went mad seeing our rituals. Poor peepz, they were made to sit in front of yagna kundala for almost 5 hours :D:D.
But i bet, even they enjoyed as much as i did, when i saw their customs (felt like i saw HAHK for the second time!!!)
That's the best part of these cross-culturals marraiges. We get to know, understand n appreciate different cultures n their customs.
Not very long ago, these cross-cultural weddings were completely unacceptable, especially in an orthodox setup like ours. But its gladdening to see such a huge change in such a small amount of time. I wonder watz igniting this positive change?!! Is it the so called globalization, or is it the penetration of mass media into roots of our life? Whatever it is, the change comes as a huge boon to all of us Indians. I do agree that there is need for more openness n acceptance of these kind of marraiges, but I think, we are heading in a right direction.
--Raju PP at 11:42 PM
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Cross-Culture Marraiges
Last week i attended my cousin's wedding in Mysore. He( my cousin ) is a Brahmin(ofcourse!!) & she is a Marwadi( Gujju i think). The whole marraige went off very well. Honestly, this was one of the most interesting weddings i have attended till date. Mere reason was that it was a cross-cultural wedding. The bride n her parents almost went mad seeing our rituals. Poor peepz, they were made to sit in front of yagna kundala for almost 5 hours :D:D.
But i bet, even they enjoyed as much as i did, when i saw their customs (felt like i saw HAHK for the second time!!!)
That's the best part of these cross-culturals marraiges. We get to know, understand n appreciate different cultures n their customs.
Not very long ago, these cross-cultural weddings were completely unacceptable, especially in an orthodox setup like ours. But its gladdening to see such a huge change in such a small amount of time. I wonder watz igniting this positive change?!! Is it the so called globalization, or is it the penetration of mass media into roots of our life? Whatever it is, the change comes as a huge boon to all of us Indians. I do agree that there is need for more openness n acceptance of these kind of marraiges, but I think, we are heading in a right direction.
--Raju PP at 11:42 PM
3 comments