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Saturday, March 28, 2026
TopicIndian weddings

Topic: Indian weddings

A bride enjoying her wedding day is a radical act

They say a happy bride is the best bride. To me, this once felt like a redundant statement. It’s her wedding, duh. Of course,...

Indians are falling for the big fat Instagram wedding – manufactured happiness for algorithm

Weddings today feel less about love, union, or companionship and more about pastels, the right songs, and cinematic wedding photography

Desi weddings are now fake, vapid, meaningless extravaganzas. Billionaires pop out of nowhere

Once you sign up for a celebrity-driven destination ‘event’, you are held hostage for three days that test your sanity and stamina, unless you are Ranveer Singh, who always looks like he is having the best time.

Global media dissects fractures in India-US ties & New Delhi’s ‘great-power delusions’

FT reports on SEBI’s call for structural reforms after Jane Street ‘manipulation’ while BBC highlights urban India’s new fad—fake weddings.

Fake weddings are Delhi’s new distraction. Marigolds, lehengas, sangeet & beer—no vows

With tickets going for up to Rs 5,000, fake weddings are also a new business for wedding planners and event managers. Millennials and Gen Z are the target audience.

Indian weddings get a new destination in tier-2 cities—Rishikesh, Khajuraho, Corbett

There’s now a budget-friendly answer to dreamy destination weddings in Goa or Udaipur, offering riverside mandaps, mountain vows, forest pheras.

Five gunshots in NCR that killed the big fat Indian wedding in one month

Blood, chaos, silence. And the baraatis kept dancing.

Indian shaadi checklist gets longer. Lehenga, mehendi & now pre-marriage counselling

Premarital counselling is the newest addition to wedding rituals. For young urban Indians, love and mum’s advice aren’t enough to handle cold feet, communication gaps, and conflict.

The reel story of Indian weddings—how they are lavish, viral & broke

We have learned nothing from our cousins. They were killing themselves at their weddings to impress the aunties, and we are doing the same to impress the algorithm.

Khap in Charkhi Dadri bans celebratory firing. Offenders to face fine, police action & social boycott

Ban on celebratory firing in Haryana's Charkhi Dadri was announced by Sarv Jatiya Athgama Khap Panchayat days after 13-yr-old girl was killed during wedding procession.

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Indian govt says will borrow Rs 8.2 trillion in first-half of next fiscal year

The administration trimmed its gross borrowing program to 16.09 trillion rupees from 17.2 trillion rupees announced in the budget on Feb. 1.

India greenlights procurement of 5 more S-400 air defence systems from Russia

In FY 2025-26, AoN for 55 proposals amounting to Rs 6.73 lakh cr has been accorded by DAC. Both the quantum of AoN given and capital contracts signed, so far, have been the highest in any FY.

The Vishwaguru delusion, mine vs yours, is ruining our view of the world

One side thinks India is punching way above its weight. The other thinks Modi has undermined India and it punches below its strength. Both are wrong.