{"id":563,"date":"2019-02-13T08:00:35","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T08:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sibha.online\/wprandom\/?p=563"},"modified":"2019-06-28T06:42:24","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T06:42:24","slug":"the-big-fat-indian-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/2019\/02\/13\/the-big-fat-indian-wedding\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big Fat Indian Wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The cliche Big Fat Indian Wedding is somewhat misleading.\u00a0 India is too diverse a country to be slotted into one word or phrase. Every region , sub region has it’s own way of conducting their weddings. If you had some people spending in crores\u00a0 for just the wedding outfits for the bride and groom, there are others who\u00a0 go through the rituals\u00a0 in plain cotton dhotis and saris dyed yellow in\u00a0 haldi.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Films and TV serials, there is a kind of convergence defying time and space .<\/p>\n

There was a time when the entire village became one huge pandal or mandapam ; food was cooked on industry scale for over a week, though the formal functions were spread over ‘only’ four days.\u00a0 The mud-ovens in the houses were physically destroyed\u00a0 so that everyone was forced to depend on the community kitchen.<\/p>\n

As people moved to the cities, the\u00a0 leisurely four day affair\u00a0 got telescoped into one day .<\/p>\n

Now the trend shows a switch to a three days revelry. The only difference is that religious rituals take a back seat while\u00a0 fun events like\u00a0 sangeet and mehndi to accompaniment of DJ Music and choreographed dance sequences hog the time. Nowhere is it as pronounced as in a Sikh wedding where the actual wedding ceremony is reduced to about half an hour. Why cut into fun time ? Why not have more time for\u00a0 daru and chicken, music and dance, bhangra and giddha fused with bollywood beats.\u00a0 Even the sedate southies are readily taking to Karan Johar and Ekta kapoor type boisterous , colorful\u00a0 functions.<\/p>\n

Recently , I attended a wedding. Baraat with the groom on horseback is always the central point ; the famous Band, Baja ,Baraat.\u00a0 When the bride and groom are from different regions , the ubiquitous\u00a0 pagris become even more colurful.\u00a0 The tall Rajput pagris\u00a0 can be seen along with the flat Puneri (from Pune) pagris.<\/p>\n

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The Bride and the Groom go through the rituals ,conducted by the pandits while the rest go about the business of eating, drinking and socializing till they are called to shower their blessings on the young couple followed by group photographs. In short , all have fun except may be the the main characters as\u00a0 in most communities the bride and groom are on some kind of fast till the rituals are over .<\/p>\n

Screaming kids can appear anywhere at anytime , with are without their video-games on\u00a0 smart phones.<\/p>\n

So today , what is it that defines a typical Indian wedding ?\u00a0 May be it is the riot of colours, loud music, be it the traditional Dhol or the modern DJ (often it is the fusion of both), plenty of food and all kinds of drinks, lots of dance and some religion for the Wedding Album !<\/p>\n

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Big Fat Indian Weddings.   The cliche Big Fat Indian Wedding is somewhat misleading.\u00a0 India is too diverse a country to be slotted into one word or phrase. Every region , sub region has it’s own way of conducting their weddings. If you had some people spending in crores\u00a0 for just the wedding outfits for … Continue reading “The Big Fat Indian Wedding”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":619,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions\/619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}