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TopicIndian weddings

Topic: Indian weddings

A man must earn Rs 25 lakh to be ‘marriage-ready,’ say 55% of India’s techies

The survey was conducted by Blind, a US-based anonymous app, where 14 million verified professionals worldwide engage in honest conversations.

How India’s pre-wedding shoots have become content factories. Lights, camera, marriage

The recent case of Ketan Aggarwal and Siya Goyal has brought the spotlight back on the pre-wedding shoots in India. They too had planned a shoot in picturesque Bali.

Return of the matchmaker. Why young Indians are reviving arranged marriage

Pune's Siya Goyal-Ketan Agarwal case has revived the debate around arranged marriages. For some young Indians, the institution is now a search for certainty and commitment.

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.

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Trump threatened to redraw the map. Greenland deal shows the limits of his disruption

The bargain was never sovereignty in exchange for security. It was extensive American military freedom inside continuing Danish sovereignty.

Tiruppur’s success runs on cheap cotton. India needs to ask who pays for it

Repeated changes in cotton import duty have prioritised textile competitiveness when mills face high input costs. But policy can also put pressure on farmgate prices.

At Tejas trainer handover, Rajnath warns delays can lead to ‘technology obsoletion’

HAL finally closes 2010 Tejas order but work remains on Mk1A and the first delivery is unlikely before IAF chief retires end of October.

Bangladesh isn’t a mirror image of Pakistan. Hyphenating them undermines India’s strategic interests

India is caught in a trap of its own making. While BJP may find it convenient to play on insecurities, it gives Pakistan and Bangladesh leverage.