Knot single

For India's first official sologomist, marrying herself also means revolution in her quiet, traditional city

- SNEHA BHURA

The first thing you notice about Kshama Bindu, who married herself on June 9 in a clandestine ceremony in Vadodara, is the sindoor in the parting of her hair. "I will wear it every day now," she says. Her face is fully covered with a scarf, save for her eyes. She does not want to be recognized. Her curious decision to self-marry was all the rage in this quiet sanskari nagri.

Dressed in an all-black ensemble, with her t-shirt tied in a knot around her waist, the 24-year-old knows how to match her chunky sneakers with chuda (red bangles) on both hands. Instead of the initials of a better half, her dark brown mehendi has self-celebratory vows like 'I will never quit on myself' etched onto her hands.