20 Hindu couples tie the knot in Karachi
Twenty mandaps were arranged around a raised platform. The purohit spoke into a public address system while the bride and groom followed his instructions.
What made the occasion momentous for 20 Hindu families who had travelled to Karachi for Saturday's mass wedding at the Swami Narayan Mandir was the incentive- they didn't have to pay a single paisa. The Pakistan Hindu Council picked the tab.
Eighteen years after social worker Shamji Bijalo married off his Karachi-born daughter to cousins in Jamnagar, Gujarat, she was back in the port city.
This time, Bijalo's grandson Manesh Manoharlal Dru, a daily wages labourer, was accompanying her Dru was in Karachi to marry 18-year-old Kanda Bai, a distant cousin. "My daughter was looking for a Karachi girl for a bahu," says Bijalo, a former employee of the Karachi Water Board.
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What made the occasion momentous for 20 Hindu families who had travelled to Karachi for Saturday's mass wedding at the Swami Narayan Mandir was the incentive- they didn't have to pay a single paisa. The Pakistan Hindu Council picked the tab.
Eighteen years after social worker Shamji Bijalo married off his Karachi-born daughter to cousins in Jamnagar, Gujarat, she was back in the port city.
This time, Bijalo's grandson Manesh Manoharlal Dru, a daily wages labourer, was accompanying her Dru was in Karachi to marry 18-year-old Kanda Bai, a distant cousin. "My daughter was looking for a Karachi girl for a bahu," says Bijalo, a former employee of the Karachi Water Board.
To read the full article, click here..
To read the ePapers, visit: http://epaper.hindustantimes.com
Labels: bride, groom, Gujarat, Hindu families, instructions, Jamnagar, Karachi, Karachi girl, Karachi Water Board, mandaps, mass wedding, Pakistan Hindu Council, port city, Swami Narayan Mandir
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