There is no need to make marriage a means of objectifying men and women as objects meant for donation. Marriage is a bond between two individuals, not two objects.

Tapasya Parihar is an IAS officer who is in news for refusing to kanyadaan on her wedding by telling her father, ‘I am not a charity thing, I am your daughter.’

She discussed it with her family members and they also agreed to it. She managed to persuade the groom’s side also.

Tapasya Parihar’s father also felt happy by marrying his daughter without kanyadaan.

There is so much scope to trim out Indian wedding customs that are serving no one except patriarchal tradition.

The wedding was a small and cozy ceremony. Pooja’s parents had sent some money for her wedding. Sajid and his wife decided to go ahead with the marriage rituals when the bridegroom’s family asked about the wedding ceremony since it was fixed even before the lockdown was announced.

Most Indian traditions have always tried their best to prove how inferior women are. Kanyadaan is one of them and has contributed a lot in objectifying a woman. Daan means charity or donation in literal terms. Is a woman really an object to be donated? If we combine kanyadaan and dowry, you will understand how […]

The first woman Hindu priest in West Bengal, Nandini Bhowmik is giving patriarchal society a progressive outlook. In her decade-long stint as priest, the Kolkata-based woman has solemnized weddings in a unique way. She has performed rituals for as many as 40 marriages. A Sanskrit professor at Jadavpur University, she recently solemnised her daughter’s marriage. She is […]

Nuptial Rituals like Kanyadaan are patriarchal practices, here the patriarch from the bride’s side gives away the bride to the groom. In cases the bride’s father is not present, the responsibility, then falls on uncles, as women on their own are not eligible to perform the ritual. So when Australia based Rajeshwari Sharma’s daughter was getting married, […]