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A Hindu Wedding At a Mosque

A local mosque in Kerala’s Cheravally

readily offered its premises for a

Hindu wedding after it learnt that the

family was not able to afford a

wedding hall. The Cheravally Muslim

Jamaat Committee, after being

encouraged by one of its members,

was approached by Bindu reques-

ting if the family could use the

mosque’s premises for her daugh-

ter’s wedding. The Committee also

decided to take on the expenses

of the wedding. That’s called sprea-

ding sunshine.

Muslims Pray In a Church

A church in Kerala’s Ernakulam

district allowed hundreds of Muslims

to pray on its premises recently,

setting an example in communal

amity. When a group of protesters

against the Citizenship (Amendment)

Act realized that it was nearly time

for their evening prayer, but there

was no mosque nearby, one of them

contacted the vicar of the Marthoma

Cheriapally, a local church. The

vicar agreed to provide the church’s

premises for the prayers after making

arrangements for ablutions. After the

prayers, the visitors took a trip of the

church, which is said to be at least

1,000 years old.

A ‘Secular’ Wedding

Would you consider taking wedding

vows along with the reading of the

Preamble to the Constitution? That’s

precisely what a couple in Karnata-

ka’s Gadag did last month. Basavaraj

Bieyali and Sangeeta Gudimani

didn’t stop at that. They had Hindu,

Christian and Muslim priests reading

the Preamble at their wedding. The

couple also had Kannada ‘vachanas’

or verses by medieval saints sung

at this unusual wedding. The couple

said that they wanted a ‘secular

wedding’. Truly, you could not get

more inclusive.

—COMPILED BY V. KUMARA SWAMY

UNITED COLOURS OF INDIA

How communal harmony and respect for the Indian Constitution

is still a fundamental instinct

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