For Indian families, a modest wedding is an oxymoron.
It was no different for Arti Kumari’s parents, despite their limited means as an NGO worker and a subsistence farmer.
As the wedding day grew closer, Arti was still waiting for notice of the date of her athletic test for the federal security force job she hoped to win.
She would be marrying without a job — not the future she and her mother had worked so hard for.
Nevertheless, her wedding would be an ornate, multiday affair.
Persons:
Arti Kumari’s, Meena, Anil, Arti
Locations:
India’s