Patna: Setting aside an age-old custom, an airhostess bride rode a mare to lead her wedding procession to bring the groom to the wedding venue in Bihar on Tuesday evening, inviting people’s attention.
The wedding took place in the southern Bihar town of Gaya, a mythological city considered holy both for the Hindus and the Buddhists.
Anushka Guha, an airhostess with Indigo airlines, led a wedding procession to a prominent city hotel to receive her groom Jeet Mukherjee and bring him to the wedding venue to conduct the remaining marriage rituals. The groom hails from Kolkata where the girl currently works with the airlines company. Her family belongs to Gaya town.
A huge crowd gathered on either side of the road to have a glimpse of the dancing bride as her wedding procession passed from one locality to another to reach the wedding venue. Dressed in glittering white bridal attire, Anuskha was often seen dancing while sitting on the mare as her relatives and friends followed her.
“I have grown up watching only the grooms bringing back brides. So I decided to reverse this custom in my case. Why can’t a bride lead a wedding procession?” Anushka asked the media, adding such things were a must to bring girls on a par with boys. She said she was happy that her husband supported her idea.
Stating that such campaigns were a must to end gender discrimination, the bride said she would also ask her friends to do similar things to bring pleasant changes in the society. “There is no difference between boys and girls, this must be clear to all,” she asserted.
Her mother Shusmita Guha said her daughter would always ask about breaking the tradition and she has finally done so. “Since childhood Anuskha would question as to why only a groom rides on a mare and goes to the bride’s house. Why can’t it be the other way round? We used to tell her that these are traditions being followed from generations but could never satisfy her. She always said that she would break the tradition and do the opposite,” her mother said.
In June this year, a bride from Bihar’s Sitamarhi district too had reached the house of the groom with a wedding procession but here the reason was entirely different. The bride Jyoti Kumari had to do that since the groom had point-blank refused to visit her home, citing surging COVID-19 cases which were at their peak at that time.
Just a day before the wedding, the groom called up the bride’s family and expressed his inability to come with a wedding procession citing COVID-19 spread which alarmed the bride’s family but the girl came with this idea to end their tension. Ultimately, even the groom’s family agreed to her idea too.
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