Malayalam cinema actors Aparna Das and Deepak Parambol recently got married in a traditional Hindu wedding at Guruvayur temple, Kerala. Check out the video and details of their wedding here.
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An excerpt from ‘Marriage: 100 Stories Around India’s Favourite Ritual’ Illustrations by Devdutt Pattanaik.
In Hindu temples, gods and goddesses get married. Marriage is as much a divine rite of passage (samskara) as a human one. It marks the union of matter (prakriti) and spirit (purusha). Matter, because it brings in new wealth, status, pleasure, security, and ushers in the next generation, who can inherit the family name and estate. Spirit, because it forces the couple, the family and the community to accommodate new ideas, new emotions, new problems and new solutions.
Elderly couple gets wedding photoshoot after 58 years in Kerala
At a time when Hindutva leaders across the country are talking about love jihad an alleged campaign by Muslims to force Hindu girls to convert in the guise of love, a Kerala mosque has broken all barriers to host a Hindu wedding to set a perfect example of communal harmony and secularism which is a bulwark of the country s democracy.
Setting an example of its own kind, the marriage was organised according to a complete Hindu tradition, where the bride draped in a pink and gold sari, exchanged garlands with the groom, clad in white shirt and mundu, in the presence of a priest and later sought blessings from the chief imam. A ceremonial tent was also set up in the premises of the mosque to welcome the guests, while a vegetarian sadya was arranged.