everyday.
I placed my feet under Ananya’s feet and helped her take seven steps around
fire. I slipped silver rings onto her toes.
Everyone clapped as I came back up.
‘What?’ I said.
‘It’s over, now go around the room and take blessings from everyone,’ the head
priest said.
I looked at Mr Swami and his wife. They were no longer Ananya’s parents. They
were my in-laws. I had done it. The two states had become one.
‘Do namaskaram,’ the priest instructed us. Ananya and I lay fully flat on the
ground in front of every elder relative to bless us. It is the only wedding ritual in
the world that involves a workout.
‘My blessings are always with you,’ my father said as he stopped us from lying
down fully in front of him.
‘God bless you,’ Shipra masi said as I lay down in front of her, ‘But I’m sleepy.
Let’s go back to the hotel.’
nora
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