The government’s campaign to have Indian and foreign couples say ‘I do’ in India makes sound economic sense, but let there be no coercion on where knots of matrimony are tied. Freedom matters. Ask the already wed.
It’s unclear if lavish Indian weddings held abroad enhance India’s appeal but those held here clearly aid the economy. As Joseph Nye says, both soft and hard power matter, but we have much further to go on both.
Soaring inflation is taking the steam out of Hungary s wedding market, supercharged in recent years by Prime Minister Viktor Orban s lavish family support measu