Always celebrate people who impart progressive thoughts, rational actions in you!
Anyone who knows me, knows, that I have always loved weddings and obviously every second of my wedding was my dream, including the "Kanyadaan" where the photos look so lovely, girl-boy-hand-in-hand.
That was until I saw A's wedding where there was no daan of anyone because come on! You are not a thing to be given off. It took me 30 years to understand this!
I would forever be grateful to A for showing me the misogyny in this ritual.
So, was I able to have an absolutely zero sexist ritual covered wedding? No! But I tried.
Needless to say, my wedding had no Kanyadaan.
Neither did it have Lojja Bostro.
What Lojja?
The communist Baba, the super loving Maa and forever supportive S stood rock solid when Thakurmoshai and the rest of the world objected.
Watching Rocky and Rani, reminded me of this Kanyadaan cancellation. So nice to see things are changing. One eye opening at a time
P.S. Ofcourse you may not agree. I know people who actually take pride in touching their spouse's feet. I've even heard an almost heart touching explanation on it once. Great! As long as you don't preach it, peace (as the great O rightly says)
