kalishivani@yahoo.co.ukMar 14th, 2007 - 15:24:02

Age is not inportend for noptuals as long as you pay respect topeople and the rites of the land.Ash will be an bride one and a half year her marring age.So why are you making so mutch of it. Her husbin is an Indien man.So by marring him she is a follower of her husbin.Be blessed Khali

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ArvindMar 14th, 2007 - 16:14:29

Well this does not matter, by which ritual she married. But they already married now, and from a long time everyone knows they going to merry by Hindu rituals. You are very late, what you want now by raising this issue now. really not understandable?

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SureshMar 14th, 2007 - 16:20:37

If indeed, there is such a law, it should be revoked. I can't see why anyone should be offended if a non-Hindu marries per Hindu traditions. Tolerance is what we need, not bigotry.

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GaneshMar 14th, 2007 - 16:50:13

We forget that the original (unanglicised) name of Hinduism is 'Sanathana Dharma' - Meaning 'Eternal Law'. The Sanatana Dharma is therefore the Cosmic Law, the Law of Nature. Hence we see that this expression should not be restricted to the word 'religion', as some people translate 'dharma'.

It is therefore myopic and a waste of time, to persecute someone who tries adopt a so-called Hindu practice.

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sadashiv chaturvediMar 14th, 2007 - 18:25:08

this 'khandewal' is just longing for publicity,it is a pure publicity stunt.
any nonhindu who is marrying according to hindu rituals is not doing any crimes
it just reflects his/her respect towards the religion.
by telling it a crime,he is just prooving that he has no idea about this
religion or he is a man who needs a place in mental asylum.

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FolkerMar 15th, 2007 - 06:13:52

I think the story is not about 'Hindu' wedding or not, although some would of course seek to profit from it just as the media profits from sensationalism.

The issue at the core, is the inevitable fact that the wedding was seen as an ugly display of wealth with no concern for the daily lives of the people who live there to make a livlihood. I lived in India and they are warm, hospitable, folks and complaining is the last thing they do. They are not a solemn and sober lot and certainly do love celebration and revelry as much as we do in the west. But they expect that pomp for its own sake is cheap trash, and this wedding did everything it can to parade ugly stunt. The wedding failed to connect, perhaps didn't even expect to, create a sense of festive since gradstanding is all that this wedding was about.

Thanks Liz and Nayar for the roadshow, thanks too, for the media for creative accounting of the event.

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SamMar 16th, 2007 - 18:09:03

Wedding is an important part in one's life. Something special to reminisce. Let us be glad that she was willing to have Hindu wedding. Admit it, most of us would perfer a nice wedding regardless of our socioeconomic status. Let the newly married enjoy life

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rohit gattaniMar 16th, 2007 - 19:47:37

this report doesn't expresses the thinking of majority of people...its just an outrageous attampt to malice the image of a common indian...

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lalit ganapathyMar 16th, 2007 - 20:18:46

after all the outrage over the shilpa shetty 'big brother' racist episode, we see here an instance of home grown indian reverse racism - the people who shamefully tried to disrupt a bride's wedding day by calling her the 'oldest bride they had ever seen' are in all likelihood dissatisfied, decrepit, geriatrics themselves, jealous over elizabeth hurley's beauty and grace - they should be treated for what they are - garbage

we saw similar such sentiments against sonia gandhi and her ostensible 'non-indianness' in the past as well, despite the great dignity she has brought to bear on indian politics

as for the wonderful mr vishnu khandelwal and his mischievous criminal complaint - it is a joke and a profound waste of taxpayer money - he should mind his own business - his flippant complaint is equally offensive to me under the same 295a of the Indian Penal Code he quotes, since it 'deliberate(ly) and malicious(ly) (constitutes an) act intended to outrage religious feelings - (mine, and possibly those of several others)'

perhaps we ought to all jointly sue him as well

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