The Big Fat Indian Wedding
Brunch Mumbai|February 26, 2017

Is it time to slim it down to more manageable proportions?

Seema Goswami
The Big Fat Indian Wedding

WE ARE all familiar with the Big Fat Indian Wedding. We’ve attended gazillions of them in the course of our lifetimes. We have gorged on the multi-cuisine buffets. We have danced to the tunes played by a ‘celebrity DJ’. We have goggled at the bride’s jewellery. We have gawked at the over-the-top decorations. Hell, some of us have probably even played a starring role in one of these extravagant odes to wealth and conspicuous consumption. But we may not be able to do any of this for much longer if Congress MP, Ranjeet Ranjan (wife of the controversial Bihar politician, Pappu Yadav) has anything to do with it. Ranjan has introduced a private member’s bill in the Lok Sabha – Marriages (Compulsory Registration and Prevention of Wasteful Expenditure) Bill – that seeks to limit the number of guests invited to weddings and the menu served to them. The Bill also proposes that anybody who is spending more than five lakh rupees on a wedding should declare this in advance to the government and contribute a tenth of that amount to a fund set up to help poorer families host weddings.

Asked about the rationale behind introducing this Bill, Ranjan explained, “These days, weddings are more about showing off your wealth and, as a result, poor families are under tremendous pressure to spend more. This needs to be checked as it is not good for society at large.”

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