Ahmedabad, Jue 09: India saw its first ‘sologamy’ as Gujarat girl Kshama Bindu married herself, with all of the wedding ceremony rituals of ‘Mehendi’ and ‘Haldi’.
She was given married some days beforehand of the scheduled date to keep away from any controversy after a BJP chief was averse to her wedding ceremony and stated she would not be allowed to marry in a temple.
After the wedding ceremony, she thanked all people in a video message and stated she became thankful for the aid and encouragement. “I would really like to thank all people who have messaged me and congratulated me and gave me the electricity to combat for what I believed in,” she stated on Facebook.
The ‘sologamy’ has become a primary speaking factor with politicians sharing their minds on this type of wedding ceremony. A BJP chief stated such marriages had been towards Hinduism and stated Kshama would not be allowed to marry in a temple.
Congress chief Milind Deora, on the alternative hand, referred to as her marriage some other instance of ‘wokeness’, bordering on insanity. While the naysayers had been many, she additionally was given aid from numerous quarters.
Replying to Deora, Mario da Penha, a PhD candidate in History at Rutgers University stated: “We stay in a rustic in which ladies born to the have an effect on of Mars have to marry banana plants, peepal trees, puppies and clay pots so their terrible have an effect on isn’t always transferred to their destiny husbands. If ‘wokeness’ is insanity, what do you name those commonplace practices?”
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Kshama Bindu, a resident of Vadodara, became to marry herself on June eleven in India’s first case of sologamy. She identifies as a bisexual person. Kshama did her commencement in Sociology and is presently running as Senior Recruitment Officer in a personal company. Both her dad and mom are engineers.
“Self-marriage is a dedication to be there for yourself and unconditional love for oneself. It’s additionally an act of self-acceptance. People marry a person they love. I love myself and hence, this wedding ceremony,” defined Kshama, who works for a personal firm.
