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Oct 2021
17m 28s

Big fat Indian weddings

Bbc World Service
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Are the days of the big fat Indian wedding over? Since Covid Indian weddings have got a lot smaller. But will they go back to what they once were? Rahul Tandon speaks to bride to be Yashaswini Singhdeo, mother of the bride Meenal Singhdeo, Sandip Roy author and columnist, Ambika Gupta wedding planner and owner of the A cube project and Parul Bhandari a sociologist from the Indian centre of social sciences and humanities .

(Photo: Indian couple hold hands during a wedding ceremony. Credit: Amir Mukhtar/Getty Images)

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