An Indian Woman Sets Out to Marry Herself
And kicks off a national furor as other women nod ‘yes’
By: Neeta Lal
On June 11, a 24-year-old Gujarat woman named Kshama Bindu (above), decked out in her red bridal outfit, with henna on her hands and vermilion powder in her hair parting, intends to do the customary seven rounds around the sacred fire and marry herself in what is India’s first sologamy – if she is allowed to pull it off.
The nuptials have tr…
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